One of my customers did a PoC using GPFS last fall, and everything went fine.
We chose to use NFS anyway because the environment setup for GPFS was more
complex.
> On May 24, 2016, at 8:08 AM, Naveed Hashmi
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> ( I'm new to activemq) ...
>
> We run Blackboard Learn which uses ActiveMQ, see link below for info ..
>
> https://en-us.help.blackboard.com/Learn/9.1_2014_04/Administrator/070_Server_Management_and_Integrations/System_Integration/SIS/040_SIS_Integration_Admin/060_Configuring_ActiveMQ_Messaging
>
> We run multiple Blackboard servers (behind a load balancer) which share
> content via an NFS share. We are thinking about moving away from NFS to
> GPFS storage, but this may pose a risk to our activemq service because
> (according to Blackboard tech support), GPFS uses byte-size file locking
> meaning it can lock part of the file which may result in activemq having
> problems.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this? anyone successfully using GPFS with
> activemq with multiple nodes (cluster)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Naveed