[gpfsug-discuss] Problems with GPFS on windows 10, stuck at mount. Never mounts.

Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) henrik.cednert at filmlance.se
Tue Nov 6 11:25:57 GMT 2018


Thanks to all of you that on list and off list have replied. So it seems like we need to upgrade to V5 to be able to run Win10 clients. I have started the discussion with DDN. Not sure what’s included in maintenance and what’s not.

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On 6 Nov 2018, at 11:08, Daniel Kidger <daniel.kidger at uk.ibm.com<mailto:daniel.kidger at uk.ibm.com>> wrote:

Henrik,

Note too that Spectrum Scale 4.1.x  being almost 4 years old is close to retirement :
GA.     19-Jun-2015, 215-147<http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS215-147>
EOM.  19-Jan-2018, 917-114<http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS917-114>
EOS.   30-Apr-2019, 917-114<http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/fcgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS917-114>

ref. https://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycleapp/PLCDetail.wss?q45=G222117W12805R88
Daniel

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From: Vic Cornell <viccornell at gmail.com<mailto:viccornell at gmail.com>>
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Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Problems with GPFS on windows 10, stuck at mount. Never mounts.
Date: Tue, Nov 6, 2018 9:35 AM

Hi Cedric,

Welcome to the mailing list!

Looking at the Spectrum Scale FAQ: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#windows

Windows 10 support doesn't start until Spectrum Scale V5:

" Starting with V5.0.2, IBM Spectrum Scale additionally supports Windows 10 (Pro and Enterprise editions) in both heterogeneous and homogeneous clusters. At this time, Secure Boot must be disabled on Windows 10 nodes for IBM Spectrum Scale to install and function."

Looks like you have GPFS 4.1.0.4.

If you want to upgrade to V5, please contact DDN support.

I am also not sure if the DDN windows installer supports Win10 yet.

(I work for DDN)

Best Regards,

Vic Cornell

On 5 Nov 2018, at 20:25, Henrik Cednert (Filmlance) <henrik.cednert at filmlance.se<mailto:henrik.cednert at filmlance.se>> wrote:

Hi there

The welcome mail said that a brief introduction might be in order. So let’s start with that, just jump over this paragraph if that’s not of interest. So, Henrik is the name. I’m the CTO at a Swedish film production company with our own internal post production operation. At the heart of that we have a 1.8PB DDN MediaScaler with GPFS in a mixed macOS and Windows environment. The mac clients just use NFS but the Windows clients use the native GPFS client. We have a couple of successful windows deployments.

But… Now when we’re replacing one of those windows clients I’m running into some seriously frustrating ball busting shenanigans. Basically this client gets stuck on (from mmfs.log.latest) "PM: mounting /dev/ddnnas0” . Nothing more happens. Just stuck and it never mounts.

I have reinstalled it multiple times with full clean between, removed cygwin and the root user account and everything. I have verified that keyless ssh works between server and all nodes, including this node. With my limited experience I don’t find enough to go on in the logs nor windows event viewer. I’m honestly totally stuck.

I’m using the same version on this clients as on the others. DDN have their own installer which installs cygwin and the gpfs packages. Have worked fine on other clients but not on this sucker. =(

Versions involved:
Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB
IBM  GPFS Express Edition 4.1.0.4
IBM  GPFS Express Edition License and Prerequisites 4.1
IBM  GPFS GSKit  8.0.0.32

Below is the log from the client. I don’ find much useful at the server, point me to specific log file if you have a good idea of where I can find errors of this.

Cheers and many thanks in advance for helping me out here. I’m all ears.


root at M5-CLIPSTER02 ~
$ cat /var/adm/ras/mmfs.log.latest
Mon, Nov  5, 2018  8:39:18 PM: runmmfs starting
Removing old /var/adm/ras/mmfs.log.* files:
mmtrace: The tracefmt.exe or tracelog.exe command can not be found.
mmtrace: 6027-1639 Command failed. Examine previous error messages to determine cause.
Mon Nov 05 20:39:50.045 2018: GPFS: 6027-1550 [W] Error: Unable to establish a session with an Active Directory server.  ID remapping via Microsoft Identity Management for Unix will be unavailable.
Mon Nov 05 20:39:50.046 2018: [W] This node does not have a valid extended license
Mon Nov 05 20:39:50.047 2018: GPFS: 6027-310 [I] mmfsd initializing. {Version: 4.1.0.4   Built: Oct 28 2014 16:28:19} ...
Mon Nov 05 20:39:50.048 2018: [I] Cleaning old shared memory ...
Mon Nov 05 20:39:50.049 2018: [I] First pass parsing mmfs.cfg ...
Mon Nov 05 20:39:51.001 2018: [I] Enabled automated deadlock detection.
Mon Nov 05 20:39:51.002 2018: [I] Enabled automated deadlock debug data collection.
Mon Nov 05 20:39:51.003 2018: [I] Initializing the main process ...
Mon Nov 05 20:39:51.004 2018: [I] Second pass parsing mmfs.cfg ...
Mon Nov 05 20:39:51.005 2018: [I] Initializing the page pool ...
Mon Nov 05 20:40:00.003 2018: [I] Initializing the mailbox message system ...
Mon Nov 05 20:40:00.004 2018: [I] Initializing encryption ...
Mon Nov 05 20:40:00.005 2018: [I] Initializing the thread system ...
Mon Nov 05 20:40:00.006 2018: [I] Creating threads ...
Mon Nov 05 20:40:00.007 2018: [I] Initializing inter-node communication ...
Mon Nov 05 20:40:00.008 2018: [I] Creating the main SDR server object ...
Mon Nov 05 20:40:00.009 2018: [I] Initializing the sdrServ library ...
Mon Nov 05 20:40:00.010 2018: [I] Initializing the ccrServ library ...
Mon Nov 05 20:40:00.011 2018: [I] Initializing the cluster manager ...
Mon Nov 05 20:40:25.016 2018: [I] Initializing the token manager ...
Mon Nov 05 20:40:25.017 2018: [I] Initializing network shared disks ...
Mon Nov 05 20:41:06.001 2018: [I] Start the ccrServ ...
Mon Nov 05 20:41:07.008 2018: GPFS: 6027-1710 [N] Connecting to 192.168.45.200 DDN-0-0-gpfs <c0p0>
Mon Nov 05 20:41:07.009 2018: GPFS: 6027-1711 [I] Connected to 192.168.45.200 DDN-0-0-gpfs <c0p0>
Mon Nov 05 20:41:07.010 2018: GPFS: 6027-2750 [I] Node 192.168.45.200 (DDN-0-0-gpfs) is now the Group Leader.
Mon Nov 05 20:41:08.000 2018: GPFS: 6027-300 [N] mmfsd ready
Mon, Nov  5, 2018  8:41:10 PM: mmcommon mmfsup invoked. Parameters: 192.168.45.144 192.168.45.200 all
Mon, Nov  5, 2018  8:41:29 PM: mounting /dev/ddnnas0




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