I agree, but would also normally want to stay within whatever is recommended. What about quorum/manager functions? Also OK to run these on the CES nodes in a 2-node cluster, or any reason to partition these out so that we then have a 4-node cluster running on 2 physical machines? -jf søn. 6. mar. 2016 kl. 21.28 skrev Marc A Kaplan <makaplan at us.ibm.com>: > As Sven wrote, the FAQ does not "prevent" anything. It's just a > recommendation someone came up with. Which may or may not apply to your > situation. > > Partitioning a server into two servers might be a good idea if you really > need the protection/isolation. But I expect you are limiting the potential > performance of the overall system, compared to running a single Unix image > with multiple processes that can share resource and communicate more freely. > > > [image: Marc A Kaplan] > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20160307/070f393a/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 21994 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20160307/070f393a/attachment.gif> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 21994 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20160307/070f393a/attachment-0001.gif>