On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 14:21 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Jonathan > todays hardware is so powerful that imho it might make sense to split > a CEC into more "piece". For example the IBM S822L has up to 2x12 > cores, 9 PCI3 slots ( 4×16 lans & 5×8 lan ). > I think that such a server is a little bit to big just to be a single > NSD server.
So don't buy it for an NSD server then :-) > Note that i use for each GPFS service a dedicated node. > So if i would go for 4 NSD server, 6 protocol nodes and 2 tsm backup > nodes and at least 3 test server a total of 11 server is needed. > Inhm 4xS822L could handle this and a little bit more quite well. > I think you are missing the point somewhat. Well by several country miles and quite possibly an ocean or two to be honest. Spectrum scale is supposed to be a "scale out" solution. More storage required add more arrays. More bandwidth add more servers etc. If you are just going to scale it all up on a *single* server then you might as well forget GPFS and do an old school standard scale up solution. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk Fife, United Kingdom. _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
