[gpfsug-discuss] Experiences upgrading in place to GPFS 4.1?

Frank Leers fleers at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 23:21:34 BST 2015


Hi Chris,

Since you mention GRIDScaler, I assume that you are a DDN customer and that
you have a support contract with them.  If not, then feel free to take the
advice that follows with a measure of salt although it mostly still applies
;-)
With 4.1, there are now 'Editions' of GPFS, which break out various feature
sets into a tiered arrangement, with each tier being licensed (and possibly
priced) differently.
Have a look here (Q 1.3) for the 4.1 licensing notes -
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKCN/com.ibm.cluster.gpfs.doc/gpfs_faqs/gpfsclustersfaq.html


With GPFS 3.5, you are most likely running the equivalent of the 'Standard
Edition' today.  The crypto feature set comes with the 'Advanced Edition',
which is licensed differently.

Have a look at Chapter 15 of the Advanced Admin Guide for 4.1 as a primer
...
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKCN_4.1.0.4/gpfs4104_content.html

-frank


On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Garrison, E Chris <ecgarris at iu.edu> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>  My site is working up to upgrading our paired GridScaler system from
> GPFS 3.5 to 4.1. There is a mandate to provide encryption at rest, and
> that's an advertised feature of 4.1. We already have over 100 TB of data,
> synchronously replicated between two geographically separated sites, and we
> have concerns about how the upgrade, as well as the application of
> encryption to all that data, will go.
>
>  I'd like to hear from admins who've been through this upgrade. What
> gotchas should we look out for? Can it easily be done in place, or would we
> need some extra equipment to "slosh" our data to and from so that it is
> written to an encrypted GPFS?
>
>  Thank you for your time, and for any sage advice on this process.
>
>  Chris
> --
> Chris Garrison
> Indiana University
> Research Systems Storage
>
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