[gpfsug-discuss] Test cluster - some questions

[Orlando Richards]

On 25/04/13 10:38, Pete Smith wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Good to see lots of you at the user group meeting yesterday. Great work,
> Jez!
>
> We're setting up a test cluster here at Realise, with a view to moving
> our main storage over from Gluster.
>
> We're running the test cluster on Isilon hardware ... a couple of 1920
> nodes that we were using for home dirs. Each node has dual gigabit
> ethernet ports, and dual infiniband ports. Single dual-core Xeon proc
> and and 4GB RAM. All good stuff and should make a nice test rig.
>
> I have a few questions!
>
> 1.  We're on centos6.4.x86_64. What's the easiest way to go from
> 3.3.blah to 3.5?
> 2.  I'm having trouble assigning NSDs. I have a descfile which looks like:
>
> #DiskName:PrimaryServer:BackupServer:DiskUsage:FailureGroup:DesiredName:StoragePool
> /dev/sdc1:gpfs001.realisestudio.com::dataAndMetadata:1
>
> but the command
>
> "mmcrnsd -F /tmp/descfile -v no"
>
> just craps out with
>
> mmcrnsd: Processing disk sdc1
> mmcrnsd: Node gpfs001.realisestudio.com
> <http://gpfs001.realisestudio.com> does not have a GPFS server license
> designation.
> mmcrnsd: Error found while checking disk descriptor
> /dev/sdc1:gpfs001.realisestudio.com::dataAndMetadata:1
> mmcrnsd: Command failed.  Examine previous error messages to determine
> cause.
>

mmchlicense server -N gpfs001.realisestudio.com should sort that one out.


> Any help pointing me gently in the right direction would be much
> appreciated. :-)
>
> TIA
>
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