Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Importing a Spectrum Scale a filesystem from 4.2.3 cluster to 5.0.4.3 cluster

2020-06-02 Thread Chris Scott
ug main discussion list > Cc: > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Importing a Spectrum Scale a > filesystem from 4.2.3 cluster to 5.0.4.3 cluster > Date: Mon, Jun 1, 2020 9:14 AM > > Sounds like it would work fine. > > I recently exported a 3.5 version filesystem fr

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Importing a Spectrum Scale a filesystem from 4.2.3 cluster to 5.0.4.3 cluster

2020-06-01 Thread Frederick Stock
] Importing a Spectrum Scale a filesystem from 4.2.3 cluster to 5.0.4.3 clusterDate: Mon, Jun 1, 2020 9:14 AM  Sounds like it would work fine.   I recently exported a 3.5 version filesystem from a GPFS 3.5 cluster to a 'Scale cluster at 5.0.2.3 software and 5.0.2.0 cluster version. I concurrently

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Importing a Spectrum Scale a filesystem from 4.2.3 cluster to 5.0.4.3 cluster

2020-06-01 Thread Chris Scott
Sounds like it would work fine. I recently exported a 3.5 version filesystem from a GPFS 3.5 cluster to a 'Scale cluster at 5.0.2.3 software and 5.0.2.0 cluster version. I concurrently mapped the NSDs to new NSD servers in the 'Scale cluster, mmexported the filesystem and changed the NSD servers

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Importing a Spectrum Scale a filesystem from 4.2.3 cluster to 5.0.4.3 cluster

2020-05-29 Thread Carl Zetie - ca...@us.ibm.com
On a non-technical note, I wanted to remind everybody that if you’re doing a migration and you need to temporarily run both systems, IBM licensing allows you to do that without ceremony or formality, for up to 90 days under a thing called the “Temporary Additional Use Policy”. You don’t need to

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Importing a Spectrum Scale a filesystem from 4.2.3 cluster to 5.0.4.3 cluster

2020-05-29 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On 29/05/2020 02:35, Jim Doherty wrote: What is the minimum release level of the Spectrum Scale 5.0.4 cluster?    Is it 4.2.3.X? According to the email Cluster-B (the one with 5.0.4) has the variable block size thing, so that is going to be a no. Besides which even if you could mmimport

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Importing a Spectrum Scale a filesystem from 4.2.3 cluster to 5.0.4.3 cluster

2020-05-28 Thread Jim Doherty
What is the minimum release level of the Spectrum Scale 5.0.4 cluster?    Is it 4.2.3.X?  Jim Doherty On Thursday, May 28, 2020, 6:31:21 PM EDT, Prasad Surampudi wrote: We have two scale clusters, cluster-A running version Scale 4.2.3 and RHEL6/7 and Cluster-B running Spectrum

[gpfsug-discuss] Importing a Spectrum Scale a filesystem from 4.2.3 cluster to 5.0.4.3 cluster

2020-05-28 Thread Prasad Surampudi
We have two scale clusters, cluster-A running version Scale 4.2.3 and RHEL6/7 and Cluster-B running Spectrum Scale 5.0.4 and RHEL 8.1. All the nodes in both Cluster-A and Cluster-B are direct attached and no NSD servers. We have our current filesystem gpfs_4 in Cluster-A and new filesystem