Creating a file to ease the AIX installation process

Creation of a file that contains all of the nodes in your GPFS cluster prior to the installation of GPFS, will be useful during the installation process. Using either host names or IP addresses when constructing the file will allow you to use this information when creating your cluster through the mmcrcluster command.

For example, create the file /tmp/gpfs.allnodes, listing the nodes one per line:

k145n01.dpd.ibm.com 
k145n02.dpd.ibm.com 
k145n03.dpd.ibm.com 
k145n04.dpd.ibm.com 
k145n05.dpd.ibm.com 
k145n06.dpd.ibm.com 
k145n07.dpd.ibm.com 
k145n08.dpd.ibm.com