IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Global User Group

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The IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) user group is open to all who are using, interested or integrating IBM Spectrum Scale. We have groups across the world, from the UK to the USA and Asia Pacific.

We welcome IBM Spectrum Scale users from a wide range of industries and are not sector-specific. Our current membership base includes representation from media, academia, research, automotive, defense and pharmaceutical industries.

This group is independent of IBM and run by the community members, and periodically include ecosystem partner speakers. All agendas are created by client users in the community.

For more information and the latest meeting agenda and schedule, please go to http://spectrumscale.org/

Latest Posts

Disable NFS on AFM DR

By: Jahanzaib Ali , 13 days ago

We have setup AFM DR. DR filesets were mounted in primary site via NFS. During troubleshooting, we accidentally disabled NFS using " mmces service disable NFS " We understand fully that NFS config will be (and is) lost. Filesets are are in unmounted ...
Forcibly remove user authentication configuration

By: Zhipeng Li , one month ago

Hi, I used openldap with tls to configure the user authentication method using the mmuserauth command. Now, openldap server already unmounted, but the gpfs user authentication was not removed before unmounting. How can I forcefully remove the gpfs ...
AFM DR Fileset Isssue

By: Jahanzaib Ali , 2 months ago

We have setup AFM based DR. Primary site fileset is in drop state, and the AFM cache fileset is in "Needs Resync" state. Exact error is: " AFM: Recovery on filesystem "xyz" fileset filestores failed with error 22. Recovery will be retried on next access ...
RE: Question about adding NSD devices on a remote node ...

By: Antony Steel , 6 months ago

Hi, Yes, the NSD definitions only include the servers attached, as they will "serve" the NSDs. Your other nodes will be clients and access the NSDs over the IP network from the NSD servers. Correct, if you don't define the servers in the NSD definitions, ...