[gpfsug-discuss] Multihomed nodes and failover networks

[J. Eric Wonderley]

Multihoming is accomplished by using subnets...see mmchconfig.

Failover networks on the other hand are not allowed.  Bad network behavior
is dealt with by expelling nodes.  You must have decent/supported network
gear...we have learned that lesson the hard way

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:37 AM Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman at ics.muni.cz>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> does anyone know whether there is a chance to use e.g., 10G ethernet
> together
> with IniniBand network for multihoming of GPFS nodes?
>
> I mean to setup two different type of networks to mitigate network
> failures.
> I read that you can have several networks configured in GPFS but it does
> not
> provide failover. Nothing changed in this as of GPFS version 5.x?
>
> --
> Lukáš Hejtmánek
>
> Linux Administrator only because
>   Full Time Multitasking Ninja
>   is not an official job title
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