[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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