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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">We are planning to add an ESS GL6 system to our existing Spectrum Scale cluster. Can the ESS nodes be added to existing
scale cluster without changing existing cluster name? Or do we need to create a new scale cluster with ESS and import existing filesystems into the new ESS cluster?</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">Prasad Surampudi</span></div>
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