[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS Encryption

Mon Mar 26 12:25:26 BST 2018

Hi. All,

I would be interested to hear if any members have experience implementing Encryption?, any gotchas, tips or any other information which may help with the preparation and implementation stages would be appreciated. 

I am currently reading through the documentation and reviewing the preparation steps, and with a scheduled maintenance window on the horizon it would be a good opportunity to carry out any preparatory steps requiring an outage.

If there are any aspects of the configuration which in hindsight could have been done at the preparation stage this would be especially useful.

Many Thanks

Gareth

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       1. Reminder - SSUG-US Spring meeting - Call for Speakers and
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       2. Pool layoutMap option changes following GPFS	upgrades
          (Caron, Paul)

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    Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:59:51 +0000
    From: "Oesterlin, Robert" <Robert.Oesterlin at nuance.com>
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    Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] Reminder - SSUG-US Spring meeting - Call for
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    Reminder: The registration for the Spring meeting of the SSUG-USA is now open. This is a Free two-day and will include a large number of Spectrum Scale updates and breakout tracks.

    Please note that we have limited meeting space so please register early if you plan on attending. If you are interested in presenting, please contact me. We do have a few more slots for user presentations ? these do not need to be long.

    You can register here:

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spectrum-scale-gpfs-user-group-us-spring-2018-meeting-tickets-43662759489

    DATE AND TIME
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    LOCATION
    IBM Cambridge Innovation Center
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    Bob Oesterlin
    Sr Principal Storage Engineer, Nuance

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    Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:10:05 +0000
    From: "Caron, Paul" <Paul.Caron at sig.com>
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    Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] Pool layoutMap option changes following GPFS
    	upgrades
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    Hi,

    Has anyone run into a situation where the layoutMap option for a pool changes from "scatter" to "cluster" following a GPFS software upgrade?  We recently upgraded a file system from 3.5.0.21, to 4.1.1.17, and finally to 4.2.3.6.  We noticed that the layoutMap option for two of our pools changed following the upgrades.  We didn't recreate the file system or any of the pools.  Further lab testing has revealed that the layoutMap option change actually occurred during the first upgrade to 4.1.1.17, and it was simply carried forward to 4.2.3.6.  We have a PMR open with IBM on this problem, but they have told us that layoutMap option changes are impossible for existing pools, and that a software upgrade couldn't do this.  I sent the results of my lab testing today, so I'm hoping to get a better response.

    We would rather not have to recreate all the pools, but it is starting to look like that may be the only option to fix this.  Also, it's unclear if this could happen again during future upgrades.

    Here's some additional background.

    *         The "-j" option for the file system is "cluster"

    *         We have a pretty small cluster; just 13 nodes

    *         When reproducing the problem, we noted that the layoutMap option didn't change until the final node was upgraded

    *         The layoutMap option changed before running the "mmchconfig release=LATEST" and "mmchfs <fs> -V full" commands, so those don't seem to be related to the problem

    Thanks,

    Paul C.
    SIG

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