[gpfsug-discuss] AFM Licensing

[Luke Raimbach]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the response, but that page is still not helpful.

We will not be exporting any data from the GPFS cluster through the AFM
gateways. Data will be coming from external NFS data sources, through the
gateway nodes INTO the GPFS file systems.

Reading that licensing page suggests a client license is acceptable in this
situation. There is no mention of AFM explicitly as a function of the
server license.

Cheers,
Luke.

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 at 14:20 Kevin D Johnson <kevindjo at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> An AFM gateway node would definitely be a server licensed node.  Here are
> the working definitions, and yes, this would be true for the various
> editions of IBM Spectrum Scale:
>
>
> http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_4.2.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r2.ins.doc/bl1ins_gpfslicensedesignation.htm
>
> Kevin D. Johnson, MBA, MAFM
> Spectrum Computing, Senior Managing Consultant
>
> IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Spectrum Scale V4.1.1
> IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Cloud Object Storage V3.8
> IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Spectrum Computing V1
>
> 720.349.6199 - kevindjo at us.ibm.com
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Luke Raimbach <luke.raimbach at googlemail.com>
> Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org
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> Cc:
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> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] AFM Licensing
> Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2016 9:12 AM
>
> Thanks for the feature matrix, but it doesn't really say anything about
> client / server licenses. Surely you can have clients and servers in all
> three flavours - Express, Standard and Advanced.
>
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 at 12:07 Andrew Beattie <abeattie at au1.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I think you will find that AFM in any flavor is a function of the Server
> license, not a client license.
>
> i've always found this to be a pretty good guide, although you now need to
> add Transparent Cloud Tiering into the bottom column
>
>
>
>
> Andrew Beattie
> Software Defined Storage  - IT Specialist
> Phone: 614-2133-7927
> E-mail: abeattie at au1.ibm.com
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Luke Raimbach <luke.raimbach at googlemail.com>
> Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org
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> Cc:
> Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] AFM Licensing
> Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2016 8:22 PM
>
> HI All,
>
> I have a tantalisingly interesting question about licensing...
>
> When installing a couple of AFM gateway nodes into a cluster for data
> migration, where the AFM filesets will only ever be local-updates, those
> nodes should just require a client license, right? No GPFS data will leave
> through those nodes, so I can't see any valid argument for them being
> server licensed.
>
> Anyone want to disagree?
>
> Cheers,
> Luke.
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