[gpfsug-discuss] Demo

[Sande, Mikal]

Apart from the usefulness of parallel access to the same LUNs, one feature I value for metadata heavy workloads is being able to split data and metadata. When we moved metadata from spindles to flash LUNs on one of our clusters it was a day vs. night kind of change in behavior in the cluster.

Just my two cents, I know exactly how to demo the split between data and metadata. Maybe when creating the filesystem? Or maybe afterwards and show how restripe is used to perform such a change?


Best regards,
Mikal Sande
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Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] Demo

I’m tasked with coming up with a demo of Spectrum Scale for our customers.  Something that shows a little bit of most of the features of Scale.  Does anyone have some ideas of “must see” features that might make for a good demo?

My thoughts are something like:

Overview of architecture
NSD Servers, Protocol Servers, Quorum, etc
Show adding a Node to the mix as a client and a server
Show creating a filesystem (and a fileset)
Show copying some files from a client (linux client with GPFS or through a filesystem thru protocol nodes)
Show GUI
Show Snapshot

Any other thoughts?


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