[gpfsug-discuss] NSD access routes

[Dave Goodbourn]

Yeah, that was my back up plan but would be more costly in the cloud.

Read only is a limitation of most cloud providers not something that I "want". Just trying to move a network bottleneck. 

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Dave Goodbourn

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Milk Visual Effects
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> On 5 Jun 2017, at 08:52, Luis Bolinches <luis.bolinches at fi.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Have you look at LROC instead? Might fit in simpler way to what your are describing. 
> 
> --
> Cheers
> 
>> On 5 Jun 2017, at 10.51, Dave Goodbourn <dave at milk-vfx.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Morning all,
>> 
>> Just a quick one about NSD access and read only disks. 
>> 
>> Can you have 2 NSD servers, one with read/write access to a disk and one with just read only access to the same disk? I know you can write to a disk over the network via another NSD server but can you mount the disk in read only mode to increase the read performance? This is all virtual/cloud based.
>> 
>> Is GPFS clever enough (or can it be configured) to know to read from the locally attached read only disk but write back via another NSD server over the GPFS network?
>> 
>> Cheers,
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>> Dave Goodbourn
>> 
>> Head of Systems
>> Milk Visual Effects
>> Tel: +44 (0)20 3697 8448
>> Mob: +44 (0)7917 411 069
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