IBM Platform LSF offerings that include Platform Cluster Manager Community Edition

IBM® Platform Cluster Manager Community Edition 4.2.1 is available with the following IBM Platform LSF® offerings: IBM Platform LSF Community Edition 9.1.3, IBM Platform LSF Suite for Workgroups 9.1.3, and IBM Platform LSF Suite for HPC 9.1.3.

Restriction: In the LSF offerings, the LSF cluster templates have the following restrictions:
  • High availability for LSF and PAC can only be enabled during cluster creation if high availability was enabled during Platform Cluster Manager Community Edition installation or before the LSF cluster was created. High availability cannot be enabled after a cluster is created. When high availability is enabled, the primary and secondary Platform Cluster Manager Community Edition management nodes serve as the primary and secondary management nodes for LSF and PAC high availability.
  • The minimum number of servers in the LSF master tier (LSFMaster) must be set to 0 and cannot be changed.
  • The minimum number of servers in the LSF compute tier (LSFCompute) can only be specified during cluster creation. The LSF compute tier must be set between 0 and 10.
  • The minimum number of servers in the LSF master and LSF compute tier cannot be changed after cluster creation.
  • On a RHEL 7.2 management node, ensure that the DHCP lease is set to never expire so that the DHCP connection is maintained.
    1. Source Platform Cluster Manager Community Edition environment variables.
      # source /opt/pcm/bin/pcmenv.sh
    2. Update the DHCP lease setting to never expire.
      1. Open the site table.
        #tabedit site
      2. Edit the site table to modify the dhcplease value from 43200 to -1.
      3. Save and close the site table.
    3. Reset the DHCP connection.
         # makedhcp -a
   # makedhcp -n