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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 15, 2022

Support for multiple daemon networks

Currently GPFS has a major networking restriction which is (from the developer works site): When configuring a GPFS cluster you start by defining an IP address that can be used for all nodes to communicate. This is the IP address that you specify when creating a cluster or adding a node to a cluster. This IP address is displayed when you run the mmlscluster command. This IP address must be in a TCP/IP address space that allows all of the GPFS nodes within the cluster or across multiple clusters sharing data to communicate using TCP/IP. Then you can define other TCP/IP networks that are used for node to node communications once the GPFS daemon is started. How these networks are used is defined using the subnets parameter. The subets parameter is configured using the mmchconfig command. The idea is to allow mmfsd to reply / accept connections on any network that it might have access to on a multi-homed host. e.g. An NSD server with daemon address 123.10.10.10 with access to the networks 123.x.y.z, 10.x.y.z and 10.a.b.c will accept communications on all three networks rather than requiring an initial connection to 123.10.10.10. This would allow for cases where the storage needs to be shared with air-gapped clusters that process restricted data so communications go over a dedicated VLAN.
Idea priority Medium
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    Sep 23, 2022
    Spectrum Scale 5.1.5 delivered - Multi rail over TCP (MROT) Ability to route over multiple network interfaces without bonding using Multi-Rail Over TCP