Re: [gpfsug-discuss] gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 100, Issue 32

2020-05-31 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 29 May 2020 22:30:08 +0100, Jonathan Buzzard said: > Ethernet goes *very* fast these days you know :-) In fact *much* faster > than fibre channel. Yes, but the justification, purchase, and installation of 40G or 100G Ethernet interfaces in the machines involved, plus the routers/switches a

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Multi-cluster question (was Re: gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 100, Issue 32)

2020-05-31 Thread Avila, Geoffrey
The local-block-device method of I/O is what is usually termed "SAN mode"; right? On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 12:47 PM Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > > No, this is a common misconception. You don’t need any NSD servers. NSD > servers are only needed if you have nodes without direct block access. > >

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Multi-cluster question (was Re: gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 100, Issue 32)

2020-05-31 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
No, this is a common misconception. You don’t need any NSD servers. NSD servers are only needed if you have nodes without direct block access. Remote cluster or not, disk access will be over local block device (without involving NSD servers in any way), or NSD server if local access isn’t availab

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Multi-cluster question (was Re: gpfsug-discuss Digest, Vol 100, Issue 32)

2020-05-31 Thread Jonathan Buzzard
On 29/05/2020 20:55, Stephen Ulmer wrote: I have a question about multi-cluster, but it is related to this thread (it would be solving the same problem). Let’s say we have two clusters A and B, both clusters are normally shared-everything with no NSD servers defined. Er, even in a shared-eve