[gpfsug-discuss] Hello!

Jez Tucker (Chair) chair at gpfsug.org
Thu Jul 31 00:38:23 BST 2014


Hi Zander,

   We have a git repository.  Would you be interested in adding any 
Zabbix custom metrics gathering to GPFS to it?

https://github.com/gpfsug/gpfsug-tools

Best,

Jez

On 30/07/14 11:27, Zander Mears wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As suggested when joining here's a quick intro to me, who I work for 
> and how we use GPFS.
>
> I'm currently a Storage System Administrator for EBI, the European 
> Bioinformatics Institute. We've recently started using GPFS via a 
> three GSS26 system storage cluster connecting to our general purpose 
> compute farm.
>
> GPFS is new for EBI and very new to me as well as HPC in general 
> coming from an ISP networking > General/Windows Sys admin > VMWare sys 
> admin > NetApp sys admin > storage sys admin with a spattering of 
> Linux spread throughout this time of around 17 years.
>
> We are using the GPFS system as a scratch area for our users to run IO 
> intensive work loads on. We have been impressed with some of the 
> figures we've seen but are still in the tweaking stages, for example 
> trying to resolve excessive expulsions (looking resolved), frame 
> overruns and bonding issues.
>
> We monitor a number of metrics via Zabbix which a colleague (the main 
> admin) setup. We work closely with the compute team who manage the 
> compute farm and the client GPFS cluster configured on it. We're a 
> RHEL shop.
>
> I've joined mainly to lurk tbh to see if I can pick up any tips and 
> tweaks.
>
> Hope that's enough!
>
> cheers
>
> Zander
>
> _______________________________________________
> gpfsug-discuss mailing list
> gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org
> http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss




More information about the gpfsug-discuss mailing list