Hi Zach, I'm not aware of any intent to make TPC or any other Tivoli/IBM product a prereq for GPFS, and I don't think any such plans exist. Rather, as Dean also pointed out, we're investing work to improve integration of GPFS/Spectrum Scale into other products being members of the newly announced IBM Spectrum Storage family, with the goal of improving manageability of the individual components (rather than worsening it...).
Cheers, Christian > Christian: > Interesting and thanks for the latest news. > > May I ask: Is there an intent moving forward that TPC and / or other Tivoli > products will be a required part of GPFS? > The concern I have is that GPFS is pretty straightforward at the moment and > has very logical requirements to operate (min servers, quorum, etc), > whereas there are many IBM products that require two or three more servers > just to manage the servers managing the service.. too much. It would be > nice to make sure, going forward, that the core of GPFS can still function > without additional web servers, Java, a suite of middleware, and a handful > of DB2 instance .. :) > > -Zach Christian Bolik Software Defined Storage Development IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH, Hechtsheimer Str. 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Martina Koederitz Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen / Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
