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Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on May 19, 2016

RELATED IDEAS

NIM HA resource synchronization enhancements

• The current NIM HA feature provides resource synchronization as a single "atomic" operation. Meaning, the sync is sequential, cannot be iterative, and will error when resource duplication is unable to complete as part of the manual "push" operation.
• The desire is to have an "iterative" approach to resource duplication. Meaning, the creation (or modification) of a resource will invoke an update of the instance file(s) being affected by the NIM resource operation.
• In addition to the change listed in bullet 2 (two), the NIM performance requires investigating as well. The current sync design is done in a succession of remote nfs share operations and file queries/ creates. If the logic were changed to poll the entire set of local NIM resources and then provide a single call to the remote master for nfs share and filesystem processing, the overhead is reduced by an exponential factor.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 10, 2020

    Available in AIX 7.2 TL3

  • Guest
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    |     May 20, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #88741 in product IBM AIX.

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