[gpfsug-discuss] Test cluster - some questions

[Pete Smith]

Thanks Orlando. Much appreciated.


On 25 April 2013 10:48, Orlando Richards <orlando.richards at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 25/04/13 10:38, Pete Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Good to see lots of you at the user group meeting yesterday. Great work,
>> Jez!
>>
>> We're setting up a test cluster here at Realise, with a view to moving
>> our main storage over from Gluster.
>>
>> We're running the test cluster on Isilon hardware ... a couple of 1920
>> nodes that we were using for home dirs. Each node has dual gigabit
>> ethernet ports, and dual infiniband ports. Single dual-core Xeon proc
>> and and 4GB RAM. All good stuff and should make a nice test rig.
>>
>> I have a few questions!
>>
>> 1.  We're on centos6.4.x86_64. What's the easiest way to go from
>> 3.3.blah to 3.5?
>> 2.  I'm having trouble assigning NSDs. I have a descfile which looks like:
>>
>> #DiskName:PrimaryServer:**BackupServer:DiskUsage:**
>> FailureGroup:DesiredName:**StoragePool
>> /dev/sdc1:gpfs001.**realisestudio.com::**dataAndMetadata:1
>>
>> but the command
>>
>> "mmcrnsd -F /tmp/descfile -v no"
>>
>> just craps out with
>>
>> mmcrnsd: Processing disk sdc1
>> mmcrnsd: Node gpfs001.realisestudio.com
>> <http://gpfs001.realisestudio.**com <http://gpfs001.realisestudio.com>>
>> does not have a GPFS server license
>> designation.
>> mmcrnsd: Error found while checking disk descriptor
>> /dev/sdc1:gpfs001.**realisestudio.com::**dataAndMetadata:1
>> mmcrnsd: Command failed.  Examine previous error messages to determine
>> cause.
>>
>>
> mmchlicense server -N gpfs001.realisestudio.com should sort that one out.
>
>
>  Any help pointing me gently in the right direction would be much
>> appreciated. :-)
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> --
>> Pete Smith
>> DevOp/System Administrator
>> Realise Studio
>> 12/13 Poland Street, London W1F 8QB
>> T. +44 (0)20 7165 9644
>>
>> realisestudio.com <http://realisestudio.com>
>>
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Pete Smith
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Realise Studio
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T. +44 (0)20 7165 9644

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