<div dir="ltr">The gateway nodes will be mounting an external NFS server as a <b>client</b>. There will be NO NFS exports from these two AFM nodes.<div><br></div><div>AFM Local Update filesets will cache the remote NFS exported file systems (pretend they are ReiserFS not GPFS to make things easier).<br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 at 15:07 Glen Corneau <<a href="mailto:gcorneau@us.ibm.com">gcorneau@us.ibm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">The FAQ item does list "sharing data
via NFS" as a Server license function (which is what the gateway node
does):</font><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">The IBM Spectrum Scale Server license permits
the licensed virtual server to perform IBM Spectrum Scale management functions
such as cluster configuration manager, quorum node, manager node, and Network
Shared Disk (NSD) server. In addition, the IBM Spectrum Scale Server license
permits the licensed virtual server to <b class="gmail_msg">share IBM Spectrum Scale data</b>directly through any application, service protocol or method s<b class="gmail_msg">uch as
Network File System (NFS)</b>, Common Internet File System (CIFS), File
Transfer Protocol (FTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), or OpenStack
Swift.</font><font size="3" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKCN/com.ibm.cluster.gpfs.doc/gpfs_faqs/gpfsclustersfaq.html?view=kc#lic41" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKCN/com.ibm.cluster.gpfs.doc/gpfs_faqs/gpfsclustersfaq.html?view=kc#lic41</font></a><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">------------------<br class="gmail_msg">Glen Corneau<br class="gmail_msg">Washington Systems Center - Power Systems<br class="gmail_msg"><a href="mailto:gcorneau@us.ibm.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">gcorneau@us.ibm.com</a></font><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><img src="cid:_2_D7BC8AF8D7BC887000528DA986258067" style="border:0px solid" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">From:
</font><font size="1" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Luke Raimbach <<a href="mailto:luke.raimbach@googlemail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">luke.raimbach@googlemail.com</a>></font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">To:
</font><font size="1" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">gpfsug main discussion
list <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>></font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Date:
</font><font size="1" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">11/10/2016 08:37 AM</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Subject:
</font><font size="1" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Re: [gpfsug-discuss]
AFM Licensing</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Sent by:
</font><font size="1" face="sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</a></font><br class="gmail_msg"><hr noshade class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="3" class="gmail_msg">Hi Kevin,</font><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="3" class="gmail_msg">Thanks for the response, but that page is still not helpful.</font><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="3" class="gmail_msg">We will not be exporting any data from the GPFS cluster
through the AFM gateways. Data will be coming from external NFS data sources,
through the gateway nodes INTO the GPFS file systems.</font><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="3" class="gmail_msg">Reading that licensing page suggests a client license
is acceptable in this situation. There is no mention of AFM explicitly
as a function of the server license.</font><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="3" class="gmail_msg">Cheers,</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="3" class="gmail_msg">Luke.</font><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="3" class="gmail_msg">On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 at 14:20 Kevin D Johnson <</font><a href="mailto:kevindjo@us.ibm.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="blue" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">kevindjo@us.ibm.com</u></font></a><font size="3" class="gmail_msg">>
wrote:</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">An AFM gateway node would definitely be a
server licensed node. Here are the working definitions, and yes,
this would be true for the various editions of IBM Spectrum Scale:</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_4.2.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r2.ins.doc/bl1ins_gpfslicensedesignation.htm" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_4.2.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r2.ins.doc/bl1ins_gpfslicensedesignation.htm</u></font></a><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Kevin D. Johnson, MBA, MAFM</b></font><font size="1" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Spectrum Computing, Senior Managing Consultant<br class="gmail_msg"></b></font><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Spectrum Scale V4.1.1<br class="gmail_msg">IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Cloud Object Storage V3.8</b></font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">IBM Certified Solution Advisor
- Spectrum Computing V1</b></font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"> </b></font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="1" color="#5f5f5f" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">720.349.6199 - </b></font><a href="mailto:kevindjo@us.ibm.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="1" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">kevindjo@us.ibm.com</u></b></font></a><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="1" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">----- Original message -----<br class="gmail_msg">From: Luke Raimbach <</font><a href="mailto:luke.raimbach@googlemail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">luke.raimbach@googlemail.com</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">><br class="gmail_msg">Sent by: </font><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">To: gpfsug main discussion list <</font><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">><br class="gmail_msg">Cc:</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] AFM Licensing<br class="gmail_msg">Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2016 9:12 AM<br class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">Thanks for the feature matrix, but it doesn't
really say anything about client / server licenses. Surely you can have
clients and servers in all three flavours - Express, Standard and Advanced.</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 at 12:07 Andrew Beattie
<</font><a href="mailto:abeattie@au1.ibm.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">abeattie@au1.ibm.com</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">>
wrote:</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">I think you will find that AFM in any flavor
is a function of the Server license, not a client license.</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">i've always found this to be a pretty good
guide, although you now need to add Transparent Cloud Tiering into the
bottom column</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="3" color="#80803f" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Andrew Beattie</b></font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Software Defined Storage - IT Specialist</b></font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="1" color="#3f8080" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Phone: </b></font><font size="1" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">614-2133-7927</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="1" color="#3f8080" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">E-mail: </b></font><a href="mailto:abeattie@au1.ibm.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="1" color="#4f4f4f" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">abeattie@au1.ibm.com</u></font></a><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">----- Original message -----<br class="gmail_msg">From: Luke Raimbach <</font><a href="mailto:luke.raimbach@googlemail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">luke.raimbach@googlemail.com</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">><br class="gmail_msg">Sent by: </font><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">To: gpfsug main discussion list <</font><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</u></font></a><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">><br class="gmail_msg">Cc:<br class="gmail_msg">Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] AFM Licensing<br class="gmail_msg">Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2016 8:22 PM<br class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">HI All, </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">I have a tantalisingly interesting question
about licensing...</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">When installing a couple of AFM gateway nodes
into a cluster for data migration, where the AFM filesets will only ever
be local-updates, those nodes should just require a client license, right?
No GPFS data will leave through those nodes, so I can't see any valid argument
for them being server licensed.</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">Anyone want to disagree?</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">Cheers,</font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg">Luke.</font><br class="gmail_msg"><tt class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" class="gmail_msg">_______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss at </font></tt><a href="http://spectrumscale.org/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><tt class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" color="blue" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">spectrumscale.org</u></font></tt></a><tt class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" color="blue" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></u></font></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><tt class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" color="blue" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</u></font></tt></a><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"> </font><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">_______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss at </font><a href="http://spectrumscale.org/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">spectrumscale.org</u></font></a><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></u></font><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="2" color="blue" face="Arial" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</u></font></a><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><tt class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" class="gmail_msg">_______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss at </font></tt><a href="http://spectrumscale.org/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><tt class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" color="blue" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">spectrumscale.org</u></font></tt></a><tt class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" color="blue" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></u></font></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><tt class="gmail_msg"><font size="2" color="blue" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</u></font></tt></a><br class="gmail_msg"><font size="3" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">_______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br class="gmail_msg">gpfsug-discuss at </font><a href="http://spectrumscale.org/" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="blue" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">spectrumscale.org</u></font></a><font size="3" color="blue" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></u></font><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank"><font size="3" color="blue" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</u></font></a><font size="3" color="blue" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">[attachment
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