[gpfsug-discuss] AFM Licensing

Thu Nov 10 15:55:33 GMT 2016

Thanks! That's what I was looking for.

Cheers,
Luke.

On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 at 15:17 Luke Raimbach <luke.raimbach at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> The gateway nodes will be mounting an external NFS server as a *client*.
> There will be NO NFS exports from these two AFM nodes.
>
> AFM Local Update filesets will cache the remote NFS exported file systems
> (pretend they are ReiserFS not GPFS to make things easier).
>
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 at 15:07 Glen Corneau <gcorneau at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> 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 s*uch 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
>
> ------------------
> Glen Corneau
> Washington Systems Center - Power Systems
> gcorneau at us.ibm.com
>
>
>
>
>
> From:        Luke Raimbach <luke.raimbach at googlemail.com>
> To:        gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
> 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*
> <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*
> <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 V4.1.1IBM
> Certified Deployment Professional - Cloud Object Storage V3.8*
> *IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Spectrum Computing V1*
>
> *720.349.6199 - **kevindjo at us.ibm.com* <kevindjo at us.ibm.com>
>
>
>
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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*
> <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*
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>
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Luke Raimbach <*luke.raimbach at googlemail.com*
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> 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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