<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span>Hi</span><br><span></span><br><span>As stated on the same link you can do remote mounts from each other and be a supported setup. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">“<span style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(50, 50, 50); color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-family: ibm-plex-sans, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> You can use the remote mount feature of IBM Spectrum Scale to share file system data across clusters.”</span><br><span></span><br><span>--</span><br><span>Cheers</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 3. Oct 2020, at 20.16, Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzzard@strath.ac.uk> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 03/10/2020 12:19, Luis Bolinches wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Are you mixing those ESS DSS in the same cluster? Or you are only </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>running DSS</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Only running DSS. We are too far down the rabbit hole to ever switch to </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>ESS now.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Mixing DSS and ESS in the same cluster is not a supported configuration.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I know, it means you can never ever migrate your storage from DSS to ESS </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>without a full backup and restore. Who with any significant amount of </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>storage is going to want to do that? The logic behind this escapes me, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>or perhaps in that scenario IBM might relax the rules for the migration </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>period.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>You really need to talk with Lenovo as is your vendor. The fact that in </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>your region your support is being given by an IBMer or not is not a </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>relevant point. High enough in the chain always will end at IBM on any </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>region as GNR is IBM tech for 17 years (yes 17) so if weird enough even </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>on regions where Lenovo might do even third level it might end on </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>development and/or research. But that is a Lenovo/IBM agreement not you </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>and IBM.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>So please get the support statement from Lenovo about this and pls share </span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>it if you want/can so we all learn their position.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Will attempt that, though I do think it should be a supported config out </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>the box :-)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>JAB.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-- </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>gpfsug-discuss mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></div><BR>
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