I believe that there are two versions of HSM client - for JFS and
GPFS...and the one for GPFS really requires SP because it uses common
SP database (SDR?) to store information on HSM-enabled filesystems...so
no such database - HSM won't work at all.


--- Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfrode AT PARALLAB.UIB DOT NO> wrote:
> We had planned to run HSM on our GPFS/SSA/HACMP cluster of 3 p690s,
> We had planned to run HSM on our GPFS/SSA/HACMP cluster of 3 p690s,
> and
> suddenly IBM discovered that HSM is only supported on SP-nodes.
>
> We tried installing it, but the installation scripts bombed out
> because it couldn't find some SP tools. I'm suspecting that it's only
> a matter of getting the software installed/configured correctly, and
> then it should work, but this might be because I don't really know
> how
> SP systems differ from the p690 here.
>
> Does anybody have any insight to share?
>
>
>   -jf


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