dear Hansjörg This is my 1st Linux Cluster installation .My os is RHEL AS4 and Redhat Cluster Suite 4, can you give me a complite installation document on that so i can install it properly. My Hardware is as follows:------ Server :- 2 Nos HP DL380G4 Storage:-- 1 no Hp MSA500G2 regards Suvankar --- Hansjörg Maurer <Hansjoerg.Maurer@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > GPFS runs very well on RHEL3 and RHEL4. > It is officially supported from IBM only on selected > Hardware Devices. > > We did a feature and performance comparison of GFS > and GPFS as part of a > cluster project. > > It has been published in the german computer > magazine iX in 10/2005. > Just a brief overview: > > Our impression was, that gpfs is very scalable (up > to 2^99 Byte even on > Linux Kernel 2.4 compared to 16 TByte with GFS) > and has more features than gfs 6.1 has at the > moment. > > It has cluster-wide snapshots and the possibility to > store data > transparently redundant > (like raid1) on diffent storage systems. > It could be expanded and rebalanced online, which > means, that data are > restriped over > the added storage device which improves overall IO > performance by > addinge devices. > It could be extended to LAN with Multipathing... > > We discoverd some gpfs issues with mmaped files and > an undocumented > limit in fcntl locks per file > (problem with samba tdb files on gpfs) which could > be increased. > > GFS could be used free and the integration into RHEL > is much better > (with GPFS you have to compile a kernel module > on every kernel update or gpfs update). > It is supported by Redhat with no special hardware > requirements. > > If you need further information on GPFS you can > contact me off list, > because it might be off topic on a gfs list :-) > > > Greetings > > Hansjörg > > > rturnbull schrieb: > > > Hello, > > I sent in a question before about SAN > connecting multiple nodes to > > same shared disk. > > > > I have been doing some reading and came across > GPFS (Global > > Parallel File System). Since I have all this > shinny new ibm hardware, > > is this a "free" software filesystem? Anyone > heard of or used this > > technology? > > > > Let me know. > > > > Ryan > > > > -- > > > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > > > > -- > _________________________________________________________________ > > Dr. Hansjoerg Maurer | LAN- & > System-Manager > | > Deutsches Zentrum | DLR > Oberpfaffenhofen > f. Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. | > Institut f. Robotik | > Postfach 1116 | Muenchner Strasse > 20 > 82230 Wessling | 82234 Wessling > Germany | > | > Tel: 08153/28-2431 | E-mail: > Hansjoerg.Maurer@xxxxxx > Fax: 08153/28-1134 | WWW: > http://www.robotic.dlr.de/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > > There are 10 types of people in this world, > those who understand binary and those who don't. > > -- > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
