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Implementing the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) in a Cross Platform Environment
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Implementing the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) in a Cross Platform Environment

by Dino Quintero, Matteo Barzaghi, Randy Brewster, Wan Hee Kim, Steve Normann, Paulo Queiroz, Robert Simon, Andrei Vlad
June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
15h 14m
English
IBM Redbooks
Content preview from Implementing the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) in a Cross Platform Environment
Chapter 3. Scenarios 163
The POK and BUF sites share the SAN storage and holds the primary and secondary
configuration data servers respectively. The BUF site holds a (tiebreaker) quorum node and a
disk for file system descriptor only.
All disks at the POK site are assigned to a failure group and all disk at the KGN site are
assigned to another failure group. The disk at the Buffalo site is assigned to a third failure
group.
A single GPFS cluster is defined across two geographic sites (Poughkeepsie and Kingston).
A single replicated GPFS file system is created from disks at the three sites.
The mmfsctl command (Example 3-129) is used in this scenario ...
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