This article concerns deploying GPFS on the Windows platform. Other information sources on this topic include:

• GPFS Library: most of the Windows-specific details are contained in the Installing GPFS on Windows nodes chapter of the Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide

• Product announcement: IBM GPFS Multiplatform V3.2.1 expands operating system support to include Windows

GPFS for Windows requires OpenSSH, which is available from the SUA Community website. The GPFS manual describes installing OpenSSH as a two step process: (1) download and install the Bootstrap Installer; and (2) install OpenSSH. The Bootstrap Installer comes as an executable installation package. OpenSSH is typically installed from the SUA Community's ftp server using a command like pkg_update. This second step can be a problem for system that do not have direct internet access. Although it is possible to solve this problem by staging OpenSSH and all of its dependent package to a local data store, Interop Systems has recently made a much simpler option available.

Interop Systems now provides a few pre-packaged bundles, all of which include OpenSSH. These bundles are listed on the SUA Community main page and can be downloaded as a single executable installation package. They include the Bootstrap Installer components and do not require access to the internet during the installation.

pkg-current-bundleuser35.exe is the smallest of the available bundles and is the right version for Windows Server 2003 R2.