<html><body><p><font size="2">IF you have everything properly licensed and then you reconfigure... It may work okay... But then you may come up short if you ask for IBM support or service...</font><br><font size="2">So depending how much support you need or desire... </font><br><br><font size="2">Or take the easier and supported path... And probably accomplish most of what you need -- let each cluster be and remote mount onto clients which could be on any connected cluster.</font><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABB0E56DFFAD6E28f9e8a93df938690918c0AB@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for Jonathan Buzzard ---12/03/2019 10:04:46 AM---On 03/12/2019 14:54, Olaf Weiser wrote: > Hallo"><font size="2" color="#424282">Jonathan Buzzard ---12/03/2019 10:04:46 AM---On 03/12/2019 14:54, Olaf Weiser wrote: > Hallo</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzzard@strath.ac.uk></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">"gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">12/03/2019 10:04 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">[EXTERNAL] Re: [gpfsug-discuss] How to join GNR nodes to a non-GNR cluster</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><tt><font size="2">On 03/12/2019 14:54, Olaf Weiser wrote:<br>> Hallo<br>> "merging" 2 different GPFS cluster into one .. is not possible ..<br>> for sure you can do "nested" mounts .. .but that's most likely not, what <br>> you want to do ..<br>> <br>> if you want to add a GL2 (or any other ESS) ..to an existing (other) <br>> cluster... - you can't preserve ESS's RG definitions...<br>> you need to create the RGs after adding the IO-nodes to the existing <br>> cluster...<br>> <br>> so if you got a new ESS.. (no data on it) .. simply unconfigure cluster <br>> .. .. add the nodes to your existing cluster.. and then start <br>> configuring the RGs<br>> <br><br>I was under the impression (from post by IBM employees on this list) <br>that you are not allowed to mix GNR, ESS, DSS, classical GPFS, DDN GPFS <br>etc. in the same cluster. Not a technical limitation but a licensing one.<br><br>JAB.<br><br>-- <br>Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420<br>HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.<br>University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG<br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></font></tt><tt><font size="2"><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></font></tt><tt><font size="2"> <br><br></font></tt><br><br><BR>
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