The GPFS Wiki gets a passing grade !

We have received lot's of positive feedback on the GPFS wiki, keep it coming! This wiki is here to provide you the information you need to install configure and administer solutions built on GPFS that goes beyond the GPFS documentation. If you have a suggestion for a topic, add an entry, even if it is only a heading.

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Getting Started

• Quick start guide
• GPFS FAQ

Best Practices - Solution Design

• Cluster Network Configuration Examples
• Data and Metadata - Separate or mixed
• How many file systems should I use?
• Monitoring
• Tiered Storage Solutions (ILM/HSM)
• Usage Models
• Using GPFS with SElinux in enforcing mode
• Using GPFS with Third-Party Applications
• Windows Topics

System Administrators Notebook

• Quorum
• Running NFS servers on GPFS nodes
• Something isn't working, where do I start?
• Using Policies

How-to information (Tutorials)

• GPFS Lab Excercises
• Managing File Systems
• Installing GPFS on Large Linux CLuster

Known Issues

• AIX TL06 (kernel filesets 5.3.0.60) pthread

Performance Tuning

• Interconnect Considerations
• File System Planning
• GPFS Tuning Parameters
• Performance Checklist
• Tuning Storage for Use with GPFS

Helpful Websites

• GPFS Home Page
• GPFS Documentation
• GPFS Service and Maintenance
• GPFS in IBM Research 

 Technical Q&A

• GPFS User Forum
• GPFS mailing list

GPFS NEWS

• October - 2009: Avnet to Bring Scale Computing's New IBM-based Storage Appliance to Resellers Serving the Midmarket
• July 21, 2009: GPFS Version 3.3 for Power and Multiplatform announced 
• December 16, 2008   GPFS for Solaris port is decommitted