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

Lyle Gayne lgayne at us.ibm.com
Tue Nov 6 14:02:48 GMT 2018


Yes, Henrik.

For information on which OS levels are supported at which Spectrum Scale
release levels, you should always consult our Spectrum Scale FAQ.
This info is in Section 2 or 3 of the FAQ.

Thanks,
Lyle



From:	"Henrik Cednert (Filmlance)" <henrik.cednert at filmlance.se>
To:	gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
Date:	11/06/2018 09:00 AM
Subject:	Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Problems with GPFS on windows 10, stuck at
            mount. Never mounts.
Sent by:	gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org



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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Henrik Cednert  /  + 46 704 71 89 54  /  CTO  /  Filmlance
Disclaimer, the hideous bs disclaimer at the bottom is forced, sorry. ?
\_(ツ)_/?

      On 6 Nov 2018, at 11:08, Daniel Kidger <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
      EOM.  19-Jan-2018, 917-114
      EOS.   30-Apr-2019, 917-114

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

      _________________________________________________________
      Daniel Kidger
      IBM Technical Sales Specialist
      Spectrum Scale, Spectrum NAS and IBM Cloud Object Store

      +44-(0)7818 522 266
      daniel.kidger at uk.ibm.com



      ----- Original message -----
      From: Vic Cornell <viccornell at gmail.com>
      Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org
      To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
      Cc:
      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> 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




            --
            Henrik Cednert  /  + 46 704 71 89 54  /  CTO  /  Filmlance
            Disclaimer, the hideous bs disclaimer at the bottom is forced,
            sorry. ?\_(ツ)_/?


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