Re: [gpfsug-discuss] AFM gateway node scaling

2020-03-25 Thread Matt Weil
thank you thank you... I would like to see that in IBM documentation somewhere. On 3/25/20 11:50 AM, Venkateswara R Puvvada wrote: > Matt, > > It is recommended to have dedicated AFM gateway nodes. Memory and CPU > requirements for AFM gateway node depends on the number of filesets > handled by

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] AFM gateway node scaling

2020-03-25 Thread Venkateswara R Puvvada
Matt, It is recommended to have dedicated AFM gateway nodes. Memory and CPU requirements for AFM gateway node depends on the number of filesets handled by the node and the inode usage of those filesets. Since AFM keeps track of changes in the memory, any network disturbance can cause the

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup monitoring

2020-03-25 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On 25/03/2020 16:32, Skylar Thompson wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 04:27:27PM +, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: On 25/03/2020 14:15, Skylar Thompson wrote: We execute mmbackup via a regular TSM client schedule with an incremental action, with a virtualmountpoint set to an empty, local "canary"

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup monitoring

2020-03-25 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On 25/03/2020 14:15, Skylar Thompson wrote: We execute mmbackup via a regular TSM client schedule with an incremental action, with a virtualmountpoint set to an empty, local "canary" directory. mmbackup runs as a preschedule command, and the client -domain parameter is set only to backup the

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GUI timeout when running HW_INVENTORY on little endian ESS server

2020-03-25 Thread Billich Heinrich Rainer (ID SD)
Hello, Sorry, I was wrong. Looks like the timeout already happens in xCAT/rinv and the gui just reports it. What to some respect is good - now this is a purely xCAT/hardware issue. The GUI isn't involved any more. Kind regards Heiner /var/log/xcat/command.log:

[gpfsug-discuss] GUI timeout when running HW_INVENTORY on little endian ESS server

2020-03-25 Thread Billich Heinrich Rainer (ID SD)
Hello, I did ask about this timeouts when the gui runs HW_INVENTORY before. Now I would like to know what the exact timeout value in the gui code is and if we can change it. I want to argue: If a xCat command takes X seconds but the GUI code timeouts after Y we know the command will

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup monitoring

2020-03-25 Thread Skylar Thompson
IIRC, I think you need to set 2 in the bit field of the DEBUGmmbackup environment variable. I had a long-term task to see what I could get out of that, but this just reminded me of it and current events might actually let me have time to look into it now... On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:38:55AM

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup monitoring

2020-03-25 Thread Jaime Pinto
Additionally, mmbackup creates by default a .mmbackupCfg directory on the root of the fileset where it dumps several files and directories with the progress of the backup. For instance: expiredFiles/, prepFiles/, updatedFiles/, dsminstr.log, ... You may then create a script to search these

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup monitoring

2020-03-25 Thread Skylar Thompson
We execute mmbackup via a regular TSM client schedule with an incremental action, with a virtualmountpoint set to an empty, local "canary" directory. mmbackup runs as a preschedule command, and the client -domain parameter is set only to backup the canary directory. dsmc will backup the canary

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

2020-03-25 Thread Carl Zetie - ca...@us.ibm.com
So far we have not revisited the EOS date for 4.2.3, but I would not rule it out entirely if the lockdown continues well into the summer. If we did, the next likely EOS date would be April 30th. Even if we do postpone the date for 4.2.3, keep two other dates in mind for planning: - RHEL 6

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

2020-03-25 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On 19/02/2020 23:34, Renata Maria Dart wrote: Hi, I understand gpfs 4.2.3 is end of support this coming September. A planning question at this stage. Do IBM intend to hold to this date or is/could there be a relaxation due to COVID-19? Basically I was planning to do the upgrade this

[gpfsug-discuss] mmbackup monitoring

2020-03-25 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
What is the best way of monitoring whether or not mmbackup has managed to complete a backup successfully? Traditionally one use a TSM monitoring solution of your choice to make sure nodes where backing up (I am assuming mmbackup is being used in conjunction with TSM here). However