I think it's technically possible to run GNR on unsupported trays. You may have to do some fiddling with some of the scripts, and/or you wont get proper reporting. Of course it probably violates 100 licenses etc etc etc. I don't know of anyone who's done it yet. I'd like to do it.. I think it would be great to learn it deeper by doing this.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services) <[email protected]> wrote: > Er. Everytime I’ve ever asked about GNR,, the response has been that its > only available as packaged products as it has to understand things like the > shelf controllers, disk drives etc, in order for things like the disk > hospital to work. (And the last time I asked talked about GNR was in May at > the User group). > > So under (3), I’m posting here asking if anyone from IBM knows anything > different? > > Thanks > > Simon > > From: Marc A Kaplan <[email protected]> > Reply-To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, 19 June 2015 14:51 > To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Disabling individual Storage Pools by > themselves? How about GPFS Native Raid? > > 2. I don't know the details of the packaged products, but I believe you can > license the software and configure huge installations, > comprising as many racks of disks, and associated hardware as you desire or > need. The software was originally designed to be used > in the huge HPC computing laboratories of certain governmental and > quasi-governmental institutions. > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > -- Zach Giles [email protected] _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
