Thank Anderson for the material. In principle our idea was to scratch the filesystem in the GL2, put its NSD on a dedicated pool and then merge it into the Filesystem which would remain on V4. I do not want to create a FS in the GL2 but use its space to expand the space of the other cluster.
A ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Anderson Ferreira Nobre <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 3:07:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to join GNR nodes to a non-GNR cluster Hi Dorigo, >From point of view of cluster administration I don't think it's a good idea to >have hererogeneous cluster. There are too many diferences between V4 and V5. >And much probably many of enhancements of V5 you won't take advantage. One >example is the new filesystem layout in V5. And at this moment the way to >migrate the filesystem is create a new filesystem in V5 with the new layout >and migrate the data. That is inevitable. I have seen clients saying that they >don't need all that enhancements, but the true is when you face performance >issue that is only addressable with the new features someone will raise the >question why we didn't consider that in the beginning. Use this time to review if it would be better to change the block size of your fileystem. There's a script called filehist in /usr/lpp/mmfs/samples/debugtools to create a histogram of files in your current filesystem. Here's the link with additional information: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/General%20Parallel%20File%20System%20(GPFS)/page/Data%20and%20Metadata Different RAID configurations also brings unexpected performance behaviors. Unless you are planning create different pools and use ILM to manage the files in different pools. One last thing, it's a good idea to follow the recommended levels for Spectrum Scale: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-scale-software-version-recommendation-preventive-service-planning Anyway, you are the system administrator, you know better than anyone how complex is to manage this cluster. Abraços / Regards / Saludos, Anderson Nobre Power and Storage Consultant IBM Systems Hardware Client Technical Team – IBM Systems Lab Services [community_general_lab_services] ________________________________ Phone: 55-19-2132-4317 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [IBM] ----- Original message ----- From: "Dorigo Alvise (PSI)" <[email protected]> Sent by: [email protected] To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to join GNR nodes to a non-GNR cluster Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2019 06:44 Thank you all for the answer. I try to recap my answers to your questions: 1. the purpose is not to merge clusters "per se"; it is adding the GL2's 700TB raw space to the current filesystem provided by the GPFS/NetApp (which is running out of free space); of course I know well the heterogeneity of this hypothetical system, so the GL2's NSD would go to a special pool; but in the end I need a unique namespace for files. 2. I do not want to do the opposite (mergin GPFS/NetApp into the GL2 cluster) because the former is in production and I cannot schedule long downtimes 3. All system have proper licensing of course; what does it means that I could loose IBM support ? if the support is for a failing disk drive I do not think so; if the support is for a "strange" behaviour of GPFS I can probably understand 4. NSD (in the NetApp system) are in their roles: what do you mean exactly ? there's RAIDset attached to servers that are actually NSD together with their attached LUN Alvise ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Lyle Gayne <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 8:30:31 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to join GNR nodes to a non-GNR cluster For: - A NetApp system with hardware RAID - SpectrumScale 4.2.3-13 running on top of the NetApp < --- Are these NSD servers in their GPFS roles (where Scale "runs on top"? - A GL2 system with ESS 5.3.2.1 (Spectrum Scale 5.0.2-1) What I need to do is to merge the GL2 in the other GPFS cluster (running on the NetApp) without loosing, of course, the RecoveryGroup configuration, etc. I'd like to ask the experts 1. whether it is feasible, considering the difference in the GPFS versions, architectures differences (x86_64 vs. power) 2. if yes, whether anyone already did something like this and what is the best strategy suggested 3. finally: is there any documentation dedicated to that, or at least inspiring the correct procedure ? ...... Some observations: 1) Why do you want to MERGE the GL2 into a single cluster with the rest cluster, rather than simply allowing remote mount of the ESS servers by the other GPFS (NSD client) nodes? 2) Interop of the mix of 4.2 and 5.0 levels should be allowed by our coexistence rules. 3) Mixing x86 and Power, especially as NSD servers, should pose no issues. Having them as separate file systems (NetApp vs. ESS) means no concerns regarding varying architectures within the same fs serving or failover scheme. Mixing such as compute nodes would mean some performance differences across the different clients, but you haven't described your compute (NSD client) details. Lyle ----- Original message ----- From: "Tomer Perry" <[email protected]> Sent by: [email protected] To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]> Cc: Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to join GNR nodes to a non-GNR cluster Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2019 10:03 AM Hi, Actually, I believe that GNR is not a limiting factor here. mmexportfs and mmimportfs ( man mm??portfs) will export/import GNR configuration as well: "If the specified file system device is a IBM Spectrum Scale RAID-based file system, then all affected IBM Spectrum Scale RAID objects will be exported as well. This includes recovery groups, declustered arrays, vdisks, and any other file systems that are based on these objects. For more information about IBM Spectrum Scale RAID, see IBM Spectrum Scale RAID: Administration. " OTOH, I suspect that due to the version mismatch, it wouldn't work - since I would assume that the cluster config version is to high for the NetApp based cluster. I would also suspect that the filesystem version on the ESS will be different. Regards, Tomer Perry Scalable I/O Development (Spectrum Scale) email: [email protected] 1 Azrieli Center, Tel Aviv 67021, Israel Global Tel: +1 720 3422758 Israel Tel: +972 3 9188625 Mobile: +972 52 2554625 From: "Olaf Weiser" <[email protected]> To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]> Date: 03/12/2019 16:54 Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to join GNR nodes to a non-GNR cluster Sent by: [email protected] ________________________________ Hallo "merging" 2 different GPFS cluster into one .. is not possible .. for sure you can do "nested" mounts .. .but that's most likely not, what you want to do .. if you want to add a GL2 (or any other ESS) ..to an existing (other) cluster... - you can't preserve ESS's RG definitions... you need to create the RGs after adding the IO-nodes to the existing cluster... so if you got a new ESS.. (no data on it) .. simply unconfigure cluster .. .. add the nodes to your existing cluster.. and then start configuring the RGs From: "Dorigo Alvise (PSI)" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: 12/03/2019 09:35 AM Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] How to join GNR nodes to a non-GNR cluster Sent by: [email protected] ________________________________ Hello everyone, I have: - A NetApp system with hardware RAID - SpectrumScale 4.2.3-13 running on top of the NetApp - A GL2 system with ESS 5.3.2.1 (Spectrum Scale 5.0.2-1) What I need to do is to merge the GL2 in the other GPFS cluster (running on the NetApp) without loosing, of course, the RecoveryGroup configuration, etc. I'd like to ask the experts 1. whether it is feasible, considering the difference in the GPFS versions, architectures differences (x86_64 vs. power) 2. if yes, whether anyone already did something like this and what is the best strategy suggested 3. finally: is there any documentation dedicated to that, or at least inspiring the correct procedure ? 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