[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS inside OpenStack guests

[Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)]

Yes, what about the random name nature of a vm image?

For example I spin up a new vm, how does it join the gpfs cluster to be able to use nsd protocol?

And how about attaching to the netowkrk as neutron networking uses per tenant networks, so how would you actually get access to the gpfs cluster?

Simon
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From: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org [gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org] on behalf of Sven Oehme [oehmes at gmail.com]
Sent: 19 November 2014 19:00
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Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS inside OpenStack guests

technically there are multiple ways to do this.

1. you can use the NSD protocol for this, just need to have adequate Network resources (or use PCI pass trough of the network adapter to the guest)
2. you attach the physical disks as virtio block devices
3. pass trough of the Block HBA (e.g. FC adapter) into the guest.

if you use virtio you need to make sure all caching is disabled entirely or you end up with major issues and i am not sure about official support for this, 1 and 3 are straight forward ...

Sven





On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Orlando Richards <orlando.richards at ed.ac.uk<mailto:orlando.richards at ed.ac.uk>> wrote:
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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