[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
>
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