[gpfsug-discuss] Experiences upgrading in place to GPFS 4.1?
Daniel Kidger
daniel.kidger at uk.ibm.com
Fri Apr 17 13:15:40 BST 2015
Hi Chris,
The Crypto feature of GPFS 4.1 requires the addition of just one extra
RPM over the standard edition. Other RPMs remain the same.
It also requires licenses for "Advanced Edition". These are of the order
of 30% more expensive than the standard edition.
The model for GPFS encryption at rest is that the client node fetches the
encrypted file from the fileserver.
The file remains encrypted in transfer and is only decrypted by the client
node using a key it holds.
A result is end-to-end encryption as well as encryption of data at rest,
Encryption can be on a per file level if desired. Hence a way to migrate
from an existing non-encrypted. setup.
note inodes should be 4kB to make sure there is enough room to store the
encryption attributes.
A side effect of adding encryption is that you also need additional remote
key management (RKM) servers to handle the key management. These need
licensed software.
see
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKCN_4.1.0.4/com.ibm.cluster.gpfs.v4r104.gpfs200.doc/bl1adv_encryptionsetupreqs.htm
I am sure DDN can help you with all of this.
Hope this helps,
Daniel
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From: Frank Leers <fleers at gmail.com>
To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org>
Date: 16/04/2015 23:21
Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Experiences upgrading in place to
GPFS 4.1?
Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org
Hi Chris,
Since you mention GRIDScaler, I assume that you are a DDN customer and
that you have a support contract with them. If not, then feel free to
take the advice that follows with a measure of salt although it mostly
still applies ;-)
With 4.1, there are now 'Editions' of GPFS, which break out various
feature sets into a tiered arrangement, with each tier being licensed (and
possibly priced) differently.
Have a look here (Q 1.3) for the 4.1 licensing notes -
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKCN/com.ibm.cluster.gpfs.doc/gpfs_faqs/gpfsclustersfaq.html
With GPFS 3.5, you are most likely running the equivalent of the 'Standard
Edition' today. The crypto feature set comes with the 'Advanced Edition',
which is licensed differently.
Have a look at Chapter 15 of the Advanced Admin Guide for 4.1 as a primer
...
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKCN_4.1.0.4/gpfs4104_content.html
-frank
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Garrison, E Chris <ecgarris at iu.edu>
wrote:
Hello,
My site is working up to upgrading our paired GridScaler system from GPFS
3.5 to 4.1. There is a mandate to provide encryption at rest, and that's
an advertised feature of 4.1. We already have over 100 TB of data,
synchronously replicated between two geographically separated sites, and
we have concerns about how the upgrade, as well as the application of
encryption to all that data, will go.
I'd like to hear from admins who've been through this upgrade. What
gotchas should we look out for? Can it easily be done in place, or would
we need some extra equipment to "slosh" our data to and from so that it is
written to an encrypted GPFS?
Thank you for your time, and for any sage advice on this process.
Chris
--
Chris Garrison
Indiana University
Research Systems Storage
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