[gpfsug-discuss] AFM Licensing

[Glen Corneau]

The FAQ item does list "sharing data via NFS" as a Server license function 
(which is what the gateway node does):

The IBM Spectrum Scale Server license permits the licensed virtual server 
to perform IBM Spectrum Scale management functions such as cluster 
configuration manager, quorum node, manager node, and Network Shared Disk 
(NSD) server. In addition, the IBM Spectrum Scale Server license permits 
the licensed virtual server to share IBM Spectrum Scale data directly 
through any application, service protocol or method such as Network File 
System (NFS), Common Internet File System (CIFS), File Transfer Protocol 
(FTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), or OpenStack Swift. 

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKCN/com.ibm.cluster.gpfs.doc/gpfs_faqs/gpfsclustersfaq.html?view=kc#lic41

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Glen Corneau
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From:   Luke Raimbach <luke.raimbach at googlemail.com>
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Date:   11/10/2016 08:37 AM
Subject:        Re: [gpfsug-discuss] AFM Licensing
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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
 
 
 
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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
 
 
 
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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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