Re: [gpfsug-discuss] AFM experiences?

2020-11-23 Thread Flanders, Dean
Hello Rob, We looked at AFM years ago for DR, but after reading the bug reports, we avoided it, and also have had seen a case where it had to be removed from one customer, so we have kept things simple. Now looking again a few years later there are still issues, IBM Spectrum Scale Active File

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Scale 4.2.3.22 with support for RHEL 7.8 is now on Fix Central

2020-05-14 Thread Flanders, Dean
Hello, It is great, that RHEL 7.8 is supported on SS 4.2.3.22, when will RHEL 8.x be supported on GPFS SS 4.2.3.X?? Thanks, Dean From: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org On Behalf Of Carl Zetie - ca...@us.ibm.com Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 2:21 PM To: gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Scale licensing - important correction

2020-04-16 Thread Flanders, Dean
Hello Carl, Thanks for the clarification. I have always heard the term "existing customers" so originally I thought we were fine, but this is the first time I have seen the term "existing systems". However, it seems what I said before is mostly correct, eventually all customers will be forced

Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Scale licensing - important correction

2020-04-16 Thread Flanders, Dean
Hello Carl, Yes, for existing IBM direct customers that may have been the case for v4 to v5. However, from my understanding if a customer bought GPFS/SS via DDN, Lenovo, etc. with embedded systems licenses, this is not the case. From my understanding existing customers from DDN, Lenovo, etc.

[gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Scale licensing

2020-04-15 Thread Flanders, Dean
Hello All, As IBM has completely switched to capacity based licensing in order to use SS v5 I was wondering how others are dealing with this? We do not find the capacity based licensing sustainable. Our long term plan is to migrate away from SS v5 to Lustre, and based on the Lustre roadmap we