I just had an email from IBM about technology preview of the "Native Rest API" feature in 5.2.1.0
There are at least two interrelated and important questions that are not answered in the web page about this "Native Rest API" feature IMHO.
Firstly the page says it "eliminates" the need to administer the Scale cluster with the mm-command layer. Does that mean the mm-command layer is going away? Will I in the future going to forced to use some "naff" GUI layer to administer a GPFS cluster? Frankly I am quite happy using the mm-command layer thank you very much and would like to keep it that way and just be able to ignore the GUI. I do appreciate I might be somewhat old school in that view but never the less I view GUI administration of things with disdain.
Secondly at the moment the Rest API requires installing the GUI. Does the "native" bit of the title mean that requirement is going away and there will be a Rest API without the need for the additional complexity of the GUI nodes? Or is the mm-command layer going away and yes you will need the extra complexity of the GUI because you are going to have to suck up administering the system with a GUI?
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