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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 15, 2017

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Addition of nodes in Spectrum Scale cluster without checking for GPFS software or node availability

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Current the `mmaddnode` command requires that the node be available and that the GPFS software installed on the node matches the current cluster configuration. This does not allow us to add nodes that are not currently available and our system automation requires hacks so that a node will add itself to the cluster using SSH connections back to the Cluster Manager node. This can be problematic if multiple nodes attempt to automatically add themselves to the cluster at the same time, which breaks our system automation. We would prefer to add nodes to the cluster in a bulk fashion even when the nodes are not yet available. This would allow us to run one command to add the nodes.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Technical Foundation

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 10, 2017

    This is not under consideration at this time as the possible error states become complex.

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