[gpfsug-discuss] Using VMs as quorum / admin nodes in a GPFS infiniband cluster

Jonathan Buzzard jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk
Mon Jun 7 16:24:12 BST 2021


On 07/06/2021 13:46, Leonardo Sala wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> we do have multiple bare-metal GPFS clusters with infiniband fabric, and 
> I am actually considering adding some VMs in the mix, to perform admin 
> tasks (so that the bare metal servers do not need passwordless ssh keys) 
> and quorum nodes. Has anybody tried this? What could be the drawbacks / 
> issues at GPFS level?
> 

Unless you are doing some sort of pass through of Infiniband adapters to 
the VM's you will need to create an Infiniband/Ethernet router.


JAB.

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