Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Gateway role on a NSD server

2019-06-01 Thread Andrew Beattie
Matt,   If you have issues with an AFM gateway service and its running on a node that also performs NSD roles your likely to have knock on effects onto your NSD's as well.   I guess it depends how risk adverse you are,  best practice is to separate the roles (if you were using ESS it would be a

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Gateway role on a NSD server

2019-05-31 Thread Christopher Black
We've done it both ways. You will get better performance and fewer challenges of ensuring processes and memory don't step on eachother if afm gateway node is not also doing nsd server work. However, using an nsd server that mounts two filesystems (one via mmremotefs from another cluster) did

[gpfsug-discuss] Gateway role on a NSD server

2019-05-31 Thread Weil, Matthew
Hello all, How important is it to separate these two roles.  planning on using AFM and I am wondering if we should have the gateways on different nodes than the NSDs.  Any opinions?  What about fail overs and maintenance?  Could one role effect the other? Thanks Matt