[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS inside OpenStack guests

[Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)]

I was asking this question at the gpfs forum on Monday at sc, but there didn't seem to be much in how wr could do it.

One of the suggestions was to basically use nfs, or there is the Manilla compnents of Openstack coming, but still that isn't really true gpfs access.

I did wonder about virtio, but whether that would work with gpfs passed from the hosting system.

Simon
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From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org [gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org] on behalf of Orlando Richards [orlando.richards at ed.ac.uk]
Sent: 19 November 2014 16:35
To: gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org
Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS inside OpenStack guests

Hi folks,

Does anyone have experience of running GPFS inside OpenStack guests, to
connect to an existing (traditional, "bare metal") GPFS filesystem
owning cluster?

This is not using GPFS for openstack block/image storage - but using
GPFS as a "NAS" service, with openstack guest instances as as a "GPFS
client".


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Orlando




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