<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt" ><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt" ><div dir="ltr" >It's also the case that the recommended ESS config is to be its own cluster, remote mounted by any compute nodes which access the storage.</div>
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<blockquote data-history-content-modified="1" dir="ltr" style="border-left:solid #aaaaaa 2px; margin-left:5px; padding-left:5px; direction:ltr; margin-right:0px" >----- Original message -----<br>From: "Marc A Kaplan" <makaplan@us.ibm.com><br>Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>Cc:<br>Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to join GNR nodes to a non-GNR cluster<br>Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2019 2:15 PM<br>
<p><font size="2" >IF you have everything properly licensed and then you reconfigure... It may work okay... But then you may come up short if you ask for IBM support or service...</font><br><font size="2" >So depending how much support you need or desire... </font><br><br><font size="2" >Or take the easier and supported path... And probably accomplish most of what you need -- let each cluster be and remote mount onto clients which could be on any connected cluster.</font><br><br><img alt="Inactive hide details for Jonathan Buzzard ---12/03/2019 10:04:46 AM---On 03/12/2019 14:54, Olaf Weiser wrote: > Hallo" cid="1__=0ABB0E56DFFAD6E28f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" src="/livemail/0/6dcb54e6f82be102852584c500695072/Body/M1.2?OpenElement&cid=1__=0ABB0E56DFFAD6E28f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" width="16" height="16" border="0" ><font size="2" color="#424282" >Jonathan Buzzard ---12/03/2019 10:04:46 AM---On 03/12/2019 14:54, Olaf Weiser wrote: > Hallo</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F" >From: </font><font size="2" >Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzzard@strath.ac.uk></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F" >To: </font><font size="2" >"gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F" >Date: </font><font size="2" >12/03/2019 10:04 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F" >Subject: </font><font size="2" >[EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to join GNR nodes to a non-GNR cluster</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F" >Sent by: </font><font size="2" >gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font></p>
<hr style="color:#8091A5; " width="100%" size="2" align="left" ><br><br><br><tt><font size="3" face="" >On 03/12/2019 14:54, Olaf Weiser wrote:<br>> Hallo<br>> "merging" 2 different GPFS cluster into one .. is not possible ..<br>> for sure you can do "nested" mounts .. .but that's most likely not, what<br>> you want to do ..<br>><br>> if you want to add a GL2 (or any other ESS) ..to an existing (other)<br>> cluster... - you can't preserve ESS's RG definitions...<br>> you need to create the RGs after adding the IO-nodes to the existing<br>> cluster...<br>><br>> so if you got a new ESS.. (no data on it) .. simply unconfigure cluster<br>> .. .. add the nodes to your existing cluster.. and then start<br>> configuring the RGs<br>><br><br>I was under the impression (from post by IBM employees on this list)<br>that you are not allowed to mix GNR, ESS, DSS, classical GPFS, DDN GPFS<br>etc. in the same cluster. Not a technical limitation but a licensing one.<br><br>JAB.<br><br>--<br>Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420<br>HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.<br>University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG<br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org</font></tt><br><tt><font size="3" face="" ><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></font></tt><tt><font size="3" face="" > </font></tt><br><br><br><br>
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