Hi Mark, We just use an 8 Gb FC SAN. For the data pool we typically have a dual active-active controller storage array fronting two big RAID 6 LUNs and 1 RAID 1 (for /home). For the capacity pool, it might be the same exact model of controller, but the two controllers are now fronting that whole 60-bay array.
But our users tend to have more modest performance needs than most… Kevin On Dec 15, 2016, at 3:19 PM, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Kevin, out of curiosity, what type of disk does your data pool use? SAS or just some SAN attached system? From: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of "Buterbaugh, Kevin L" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 2:47 PM To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Tiers Hi Mark, We’re a “traditional” university HPC center with a very untraditional policy on our scratch filesystem … we don’t purge it and we sell quota there. Ultimately, a lot of that disk space is taken up by stuff that, let’s just say, isn’t exactly in active use. So what we’ve done, for example, is buy a 60-bay storage array and stuff it with 8 TB drives. It wouldn’t offer good enough performance for actively used files, but we use GPFS policies to migrate files to the “capacity” pool based on file atime. So we have 3 pools: 1. the system pool with metadata only (on SSDs) 2. the data pool, which is where actively used files are stored and which offers decent performance 3. the capacity pool, for data which hasn’t been accessed “recently”, and which is on slower storage I would imagine others do similar things. HTHAL… Kevin On Dec 15, 2016, at 2:32 PM, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Just curious how many of you out there deploy SS with various tiers? It seems like a lot are doing the system pool with SSD’s but do you routinely have clusters that have more than system pool and one more tier? I know if you are doing Archive in connection that’s an obvious choice for another tier but I’m struggling with knowing why someone needs more than two tiers really. I’ve read all the fine manuals as to how to do such a thing and some of the marketing as to maybe why. I’m still scratching my head on this though. In fact, my understanding is in the ESS there isn’t any different pools (tiers) as it’s all NL-SAS or SSD (DF150, etc). It does make sense to me know with TCT and I could create an ILM policy to get some of my data into the cloud. But in the real world I would like to know what yall do in this regard. Thanks Mark This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. This message may be viewed by parties at Sirius Computer Solutions other than those named in the message header. This message does not contain an official representation of Sirius Computer Solutions. If you have received this communication in error, notify Sirius Computer Solutions immediately and (i) destroy this message if a facsimile or (ii) delete this message immediately if this is an electronic communication. Thank you. Sirius Computer Solutions<http://www.siriuscom.com/> _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<http://spectrumscale.org/> http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<http://spectrumscale.org/> http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
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