I have a question about multi-cluster, but it is related to this thread (it 
would be solving the same problem).

Let’s say we have two clusters A and B, both clusters are normally 
shared-everything with no NSD servers defined. We want cluster B to be able to 
use a file system in cluster A.  If I zone the SAN such that cluster B can see 
all of cluster A’s disks, can I then define a multi-cluster relationship 
between them and mount a file system from A on B?

To state it another way, must B's I/O for the foreign file system pass though 
NSD servers in A, or can B’s nodes discover that they have FibreChannel paths 
to those disks and use them?

I know that the nodes in B become sort-of “casual" members of A, but I don’t 
know *how* casual the relationship is...

Liberty,

-- 
Stephen



> On May 29, 2020, at 11:02 AM, Prasad Surampudi 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Jim,
> The minimum release for 5.0.4 cluster is 5.0.4.3. 
> 
> We are aware that we can't merge both gpfs_4 and gpfs_5 filesystems. Our plan 
> is to import the gpfs_4 filesystem into the Spectrum Scale 5.0 cluster (with 
> its NSDs mapped to Spectrum Scale 5.0 clusters nodes) and copy the data using 
> rsync, across  fibre channel instead of ethernet to get higher bandwidth.
> 
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>    On a non-technical note, I wanted to remind everybody that if you?re doing 
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