<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi,</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Actually, I believe that GNR is not
a limiting factor here. </font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">mmexportfs and mmimportfs ( man mm??portfs)
will export/import GNR configuration as well:</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">"</font><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Helvetica Neue">If
the specified file system device is a IBM Spectrum Scale RAID-based
file system, then all affected IBM Spectrum Scale RAID objects
will be exported as well. This includes recovery groups, declustered arrays,
vdisks, and any other file systems that are based on these objects. For
more information about IBM Spectrum Scale RAID, see <i>IBM Spectrum
Scale RAID: Administration</i>.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif">"</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">OTOH, I suspect that due to the version
mismatch, it wouldn't work - since I would assume that the cluster config
version is to high for the NetApp based cluster.</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I would also suspect that the filesystem
version on the ESS will be different.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>Regards,<br><br>Tomer Perry<br>Scalable I/O Development (Spectrum Scale)<br>email: tomp@il.ibm.com<br>1 Azrieli Center, Tel Aviv 67021, Israel<br>Global Tel: +1 720 3422758<br>Israel Tel: +972 3 9188625<br>Mobile: +972 52 2554625<br></font><br><br><br><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">From:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"Olaf Weiser"
<olaf.weiser@de.ibm.com></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">gpfsug main discussion
list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">03/12/2019 16:54</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">[EXTERNAL] Re:
[gpfsug-discuss] How to join GNR nodes to a non-GNR cluster</font><br><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Sent by:
</font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr noshade><br><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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 you want to do .. </font><font size=3><br></font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>if you want to add a GL2 (or any other ESS) ..to an existing (other) cluster...
- you can't preserve ESS's RG definitions... <br>you need to create the RGs after adding the IO-nodes to the existing cluster...
</font><font size=3><br></font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>so if you got a new ESS.. (no data on it) .. simply unconfigure cluster
.. .. add the nodes to your existing cluster.. and then start configuring
the RGs</font><font size=3><br></font><br><font size=3><br><br><br></font><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif"><br>From: </font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"Dorigo
Alvise (PSI)" <alvise.dorigo@psi.ch></font><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif"><br>To: </font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">"gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org"
<gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></font><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif"><br>Date: </font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">12/03/2019
09:35 AM</font><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif"><br>Subject: </font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">[EXTERNAL]
[gpfsug-discuss] How to join GNR nodes to a non-GNR cluster</font><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif"><br>Sent by: </font><font size=1 face="sans-serif">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><font size=3><br></font><hr noshade><font size=3><br><br></font><font size=3 face="Calibri"><br>Hello everyone,<br>I have:<br> - A NetApp system with hardware RAID<br> - SpectrumScale 4.2.3-13 running on top of the NetApp<br> - A GL2 system with ESS 5.3.2.1 (Spectrum Scale 5.0.2-1)</font><font size=3><br></font><font size=3 face="Calibri"><br>What I need to do is to merge the GL2 in the other GPFS cluster (running
on the NetApp) without loosing, of course, the RecoveryGroup configuration,
etc.</font><font size=3><br></font><font size=3 face="Calibri"><br>I'd like to ask the experts</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>1. </font><font size=3 face="Calibri">whether
it is feasible, considering the difference in the GPFS versions, architectures
differences (x86_64 vs. power)</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>2. </font><font size=3 face="Calibri">if yes,
whether anyone already did something like this and what is the best strategy
suggested</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>3. </font><font size=3 face="Calibri">finally:
is there any documentation dedicated to that, or at least inspiring the
correct procedure ?</font><font size=3><br></font><font size=3 face="Calibri"><br>Thank you very much,</font><font size=3><br></font><font size=3 face="Calibri"><br> Alvise Dorigo</font><tt><font size=2>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org</font></tt><font size=3 color=blue><u><br></u></font><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss"><tt><font size=2 color=blue><u>http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</u></font></tt></a><font size=3><br><br></font><br><tt><font size=2>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></font></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss"><tt><font size=2>http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br></font></tt><br><br><BR>