[gpfsug-discuss] question about spectrum scale 5.0.3 installer

[David Johnson]

By the way, we have been dealing with adding and deleting nodes manually since GPFS 3.4, 
back in 2009.  At what point is the spectrumscale command line utility more trouble than it’s worth?

> On Oct 23, 2019, at 11:19 AM, David Johnson <david_johnson at brown.edu> wrote:
> 
> I built a test cluster a month ago on 14 nodes.  Today I want to install two more NSD nodes.
> When I tried to run the installer, it looks like it is going back and fiddling with the nodes that
> were installed earlier, and are up and running with the filesystem mounted.  
> 
> I ended up having to abort the install (rebooted the two new nodes because they were stuck
> on multpath that had had earlier errors), and the messages indicated that the installation failed
> on all the existing NSD and GUI nodes, but no mention of the two that I wanted to install on.
> 
> Do I have anything to worry about when I try again (now that multipath is fixed)?  I want to be
> able to incrementally add servers and clients as we go along, and not have the installer 
> messing up previous progress.  Can I tell the installer exactly which nodes to work on?
> 
> Thanks,
> — ddj
> Dave Johnson
> Brown University