[gpfsug-discuss] recommendations for gpfs 5.x GUI and perf/health monitoring collector nodes

[David Johnson]

We are planning to bring up the new ZIMon tools on our 450+ node cluster, and need to purchase new
nodes to run the collector federation and GUI function on.  What would you choose as a platform for this?
 — memory size?
 — local disk space — SSD? shared?
 — net attach — 10Gig? 25Gig? IB?
 — CPU horse power — single or dual socket?
I think I remember somebody in Cambridge UG meeting saying 150 nodes per collector as a rule of thumb, so
we’re guessing a federation of 4 nodes would do it.  Does this include the GUI host(s) or are those separate?
Finally, we’re still using client/server based licensing model, do these nodes count as clients?

Thanks,
 — ddj
Dave Johnson
Brown University