[gpfsug-discuss] Multihomed nodes and failover networks

Lukas Hejtmanek xhejtman at ics.muni.cz
Fri Oct 26 15:57:53 BST 2018


On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 04:52:43PM +0200, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 02:48:48PM +0000, Simon Thompson wrote:
> > If IB is enabled and is setup with verbs, then this is the preferred
> > network. GPFS will always fail-back to Ethernet afterwards, however what you
> > can't do is have multiple "subnets" defined and have GPFS fail between
> > different Ethernet networks.
> 
> Does it fail-back to Etherenet even in runtime? I mean, doesn't fail-back
> happen only during mmstartup?

moreover, are verbs used also for cluster management? E.g., node keepalive
messages.

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Lukáš Hejtmánek

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