May 9, 2015 - Cluster nodes can be server using AIX, Linux or Windows operatng system. GPFS provides. Verify nodes properly installed. Yes No; Is there a specific GPFS patch level required for the installed OS? Locate the GPFS software in /yourdir/gpfs/base/.
This tutorial is a brief writeup of setting up the General Parallel Fils System (GPFS) Networked Shared Disk (NSD). For more detailed and comprehensive, do look at for a detailed understanding of the underlying principles of quorum manager. This tutorial only deals with the technical setup Step 1: Preparation All Nodes to be installed with GPFS should be installed with supported Operating System; For Linux, it should be SLES and RHEL.
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• The nodes should be able to communicate with each other and password-less ssh should be configured for all nodes in the cluster. • Create an installation directory where you can put all the base and update rpm. For example, /gpfs_install. Copy all the • Build the portability layer for each node with a different architecture or kernel level. For more information see, For ease of installation, put all the rpm at /gpfs_install Step 2: Export the path of GPFS commands Remember to Export the PATH # vim ~/.bashrc export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lpp/mmfs/bin Step 3: Setup of quorum manager and cluster Just a nutshell explanation taken from. Node quorum is the default quorum algorithm for GPFS™. With node quorum: • Quorum is defined as one plus half of the explicitly defined quorum nodes in the GPFS cluster.
• There are no default quorum nodes; you must specify which nodes have this role. • For example, in, there are three quorum nodes. In this configuration, GPFS remains active as long as there are two quorum nodes available.