Yes, there were issues with this in pre 4.2? versions of GPFS. My clusters are 
at 4.2.2 with CCR (working my way to 4.2.3-5) and I’ve been using this process 
on my quorum nodes when I need to update them:

mmchnode –quorum -N new-node (designate a new quorum node, going from 3 to 4)
mmchnode –nonquorum -N old-node (remove existing node to be updated)

I can then shutdown “old-node” and then when I bring it back up, I reverse the 
process. I’ve had no issues using this process.


Bob Oesterlin
Sr Principal Storage Engineer, Nuance

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Date: Friday, December 8, 2017 at 10:11 AM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] mm'add|del'node with ccr enabled

Hello:

If I recall correctly this does not work...correct?  I think the last time I 
attempted this was gpfs version <=4.1.  I think I attempted to add a quorum 
node.

The process was that I remember doing was mmshutdown -a, mmchcluster 
--ccr-disable, mmaddnode yadayada, mmchcluster --ccr-enable, mmstartup.

I think with ccr disabled mmaddnode can be run with gpfs up.  We would like to 
run with ccr enabled but it does make adding/removing nodes unpleasant.

Would this be required of a non-quorum node?

Any changes concerning this with gpfs version >=4.2?
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