Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Using VMs as quorum / admin nodes in a GPFS infiniband cluster

2021-06-10 Thread Luis Bolinches
Hi   Also beware that KVM host and KVM guest cannot use the same FS nor belong to the same cluster   Please see FAQ https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale?topic=STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#gpfsclustersfaqAugust2016-gen4__virtualizationlimitsq   Not saying it does not work, stating what the

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS systemd and gpfs.gplbin

2021-06-10 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On 10/06/2021 15:00, Ryan Novosielski wrote:> The problem with not version locking the kernel, however, is that you really need to know that the kernel you are going to is going to support the GPFS version that you are going to be running. Typically that only becomes a problem when you cross a

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] DB2 (not DB2 PureScale) and Spectrum Scale

2021-06-10 Thread Jim Doherty
I think I found the document you are talking about. In general I believe most of it still applies. I can make the following comments on it about Spectrum Scale: 1 - There was an effort to simplify Spectrum Scale tuning, and tuning of worker1Threads should be replaced by tuning workerThreads

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS systemd and gpfs.gplbin

2021-06-10 Thread Simon Thompson
We manage kernel updates pretty carefully ... not least because there is a good chance MOFED will also break at the same time. We do have a similar systemd unit that tries to install from our local repos, then tries to build locally. Simon On 10/06/2021, 15:01,

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS systemd and gpfs.gplbin

2021-06-10 Thread Ryan Novosielski
The problem with not version locking the kernel, however, is that you really need to know that the kernel you are going to is going to support the GPFS version that you are going to be running. Typically that only becomes a problem when you cross a minor release boundary on RHEL-derivatives,

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS systemd and gpfs.gplbin

2021-06-10 Thread Skylar Thompson
Thanks, Jonathan, I've been thinking about how to manage this as well and like it more than version-locking the kernel. On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 09:28:07PM +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > > So you need to apply a kernel update and that means a new gpfs.gplbin :-( So > after going around the

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] DB2 (not DB2 PureScale) and Spectrum Scale

2021-06-10 Thread IBM Spectrum Scale
Hi Wally, I don't see a dedicated document for DB2 from Scale document sets, however, usually the workloads of database are doing direct I/O, so those documentation sections in Scale for direct I/O should be good to review. Here I have a list about tunings for direct I/O for your reference.