[gpfsug-discuss] RPM Packages

[Jonathon A Anderson]

Data Management Edition optionally replaces the traditional GPFS licensing model with a per-terabyte licensing fee, rather than a per-socket licensing fee.

https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS216-158

Presumably installing this RPM is how you tell GPFS which licensing model you’re using.

~jonathon


On 5/19/17, 10:12 AM, "gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org on behalf of Mark Bush" <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org on behalf of Mark.Bush at siriuscom.com> wrote:

    For what it’s worth, I have been running 4.2.3 DM for a few weeks in a test lab and didn’t have the gpfs.license.dm package installed and everything worked fine (GUI, CES, etc, etc).  Here’s what rpm says about itself
    
    [root at node1 ~]# rpm -qpl gpfs.license.dm-4.2.3-0.x86_64.rpm
    /usr/lpp/mmfs
    /usr/lpp/mmfs/bin
    /usr/lpp/mmfs/properties/version/ibm.com_IBM_Spectrum_Scale_Data_Mgmt_Edition-4.2.3.swidtag
    
    This file seems to be some XML code with strings of numbers in it.  Not sure what it does for you.
    
    
    Mark
    
    On 5/18/17, 4:55 PM, "gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org on behalf of Simon Thompson (IT Research Support)" <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org on behalf of S.J.Thompson at bham.ac.uk> wrote:
    
        Hi All,
    
        Normally we never use the install toolkit, but deploy GPFS from a config
        management tool.
    
        I see there are now RPMs such as gpfs.license.dm, are these actually
        required to be installed? Everything seems to work well without them, so
        just interested. Maybe the GUI uses them?
    
        Thanks
    
        Simon
    
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