Well, i didn't wanted to start a rant against IBM, and I'm referring
specifically to GSS.
Since GSS its an appliance, we have to refer to GSS support for both
hardware and software issues. Hardware support in total crap. It took 1
mounth of chasing and shouting to get a drawer replacement that was
causing some issues. Meanwhile 10 disks in that drawer got faulty.
Finally we got the drawer replace but the disks are still faulty. Now
its 3 days i'm triing to get them fixed or replaced ( its not clear if
they disks are broken of they was just marked to be replaced because of
the drawer). Right now i dont have any answer about how to put them
online ( mmchcarrier don't work because it recognize that the disk where
not replaced)
There are also few other cases ( gpfs related) open that are still not
answered. I have no experience with direct GPFS support, but if i open a
case to GSS for a GPFS problem, the cases seems never get an answer.
The only reason that GSS is working its because _*I*_**installed it
spending few months studying gpfs. So now I'm wondering if its worth at
all rely in future on the whole appliance concept.
I'm wondering if in future its better just purchase the hardware and
install GPFS by our own, or in alternatively even try Lustre.
Now, skipping all this GSS rant, which have nothing to do with the file
system anyway and going back to my question:
Could someone point the main differences between GPFS and Lustre?
I found some documentation about Lustre and i'm going to have a look,
but oddly enough have not found any practical comparison between them.
On 06/08/14 11:19, Jez Tucker (Chair) wrote:
"IBM support is almost unexistent"
I don't find that at all.
Do you log directly via ESC or via your OEM/integrator or are you only
referring to GSS support rather than pure GPFS?
If you are having response issues, your IBM rep (or a few folks on
here) can accelerate issues for you.
Jez
On 06/08/14 10:57, Salvatore Di Nardo wrote:
Sorry for this little ot, but recetly i'm looking to Lustre to
understand how it is comparable to GPFS in terms of performance,
reliability and easy to use.
Could anyone share their experience ?
My company just recently got a first GPFS system , based on IBM GSS,
but while its good performance wise, there are few unresolved
problems and the IBM support is almost unexistent, so I'm starting to
wonder if its work to look somewhere else eventual future purchases.
Salvatore
On 06/08/14 10:19, Frederik Ferner wrote:
On 05/08/14 18:55, Scott Fadden wrote:
Is anyone running GPFS and Lustre on the same nodes. I have seen it
work, I have heard people are doing it, I am looking for some
confirmation.
Most of our compute cluster nodes are clients for Lustre and GPFS at
the same time. Lustre 1.8.9-wc1 and GPFS 3.5.0.11. Nothing shared on
servers (GPFS NSD server or Lustre OSS/MDS servers).
HTH,
Frederik
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