<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" >Well you could just download the one-core one-lun Spectrum Scale VM from the IBM website for practicing/learning on.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >It is free for non-production use and great as a learning tool as nothing you do can have any long term harm.</div>
<div dir="ltr" >It has a license agreement that includes a time limit, but not sure if that restricts simply downlaod a fresh copy every few months?</div>
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<blockquote data-history-content-modified="1" dir="ltr" style="border-left:solid #aaaaaa 2px; margin-left:5px; padding-left:5px; direction:ltr; margin-right:0px" >----- Original message -----<br>From: Brian Marshall <mimarsh2@vt.edu><br>Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>Cc:<br>Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] testing commands<br>Date: Tue, Oct 4, 2016 9:13 PM<br>
<div dir="ltr" >Do I require additional NSD Server licenses to do this? i.e. What triggers the need to purchase a license for a NSD Server?
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<div>On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Marc A Kaplan <span dir="ltr" ><<a href="mailto:makaplan@us.ibm.com" target="_blank" >makaplan@us.ibm.com</a>></span> wrote:
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" ><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >Simple functional testing can be done on a small system with as little as one Linux node and one disk. </font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >Personally, I do a lot of testing on a several years old laptop running Linux. My test gpfs file system doesn't even use a real disk partition! Just some data files</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >I initialized with dd if=/dev/zero ...</font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >(This is not officially supported, blah, blah, blah...)</font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >[root@bog-wifi cmvc]# mmlsnsd -X</font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" > Disk name NSD volume ID Device Devtype Node name Remarks</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>---------</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" > y1 C0A8015D57586A5E /vds/y1 file <a href="http://bog-wifi.lan.makaplan.us" target="_blank" >bog-wifi.lan.makaplan.us</a> server node</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" > y2 C0A8015D57586A5F /vds/y2 file <a href="http://bog-wifi.lan.makaplan.us" target="_blank" >bog-wifi.lan.makaplan.us</a> server node</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" > y3 C0A8015D575EF0A3 /vds/y3 file <a href="http://bog-wifi.lan.makaplan.us" target="_blank" >bog-wifi.lan.makaplan.us</a> server node</font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >[root@bog-wifi cmvc]# ls -ld /vds/y?</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 536870912 Oct 4 12:16 /vds/y1</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 536870912 Oct 3 10:39 /vds/y2</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 801000000 Sep 29 18:54 /vds/y3</font><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >[root@bog-wifi cmvc]# df -T /vds</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on</font><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif" >/dev/mapper/rhelw_bog--wifi-<wbr>root ext4 183862728 42118120 132381768 25% /</font><br><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at <a href="http://spectrumscale.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" >spectrumscale.org</a><br><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" >http://gpfsug.org/mailman/<wbr>listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a><br> </blockquote></div></div>
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