i am not sure what the exact % is , but multiple GSS customers use their own racks. GSS supports a variety of Interconnects and the clients can run a large number of Linux distros, AIX and Windows that are supported, even in intermix within one cluster. we also have quite a number of customers using IBM equipment as the storage resource, but their own servers for the clients, which is usually the majority of the nodes in a cluster.
Sven From: Jonathan Buzzard <[email protected]> To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]> Date: 07/10/2013 02:46 AM Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] software RAID? Sent by: [email protected] On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 09:18 -0700, Sven Oehme wrote: > Hi, > > in case you are not aware of it, GPFS itself provides declustered > distributed Software Raid capabilities with end-to-end checksum and > many other features. > it ships in form of a pre-canned Solution, take a look at > http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/largescale/gpfsstorage/ > There is a world of difference between a tightly integrated system like that where every component down to the rack is controlled by a single vendor, and random JBOD expansion enclosure with random x86 server, random interconnect and random version of Linux. Noting of course where I work anything that comes in a vendor specified rack is a big problem due to the fact we use our own racks with water cooling. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Fife, United Kingdom. _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
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