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Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 19, 2017

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Provide capability to bypass the node fencing when remove a node from the domain

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Background information:

As part of the protocol (with gpfs_agent as the IBM.FenceAgent) when a node leaves a domain while maintaining quorum, the node will be fenced via mmexpelnode. This causes the file system on the fenced node to be unavailable.

This works great if the Db2 customer intends to put the entire cluster (peer domain and GPFS cluster in pureScale) into maintenance. However, there are customers who only want to put the peer domain in the maintenance only, but not GPFS. It is a valid use case because they need the GPFS to be online. The mmexpelnode causes their GPFS to go offline, leading the PMR 90845,122,000

In the investigation of PMR with RSCT development team, a short term fix and a long term fix was proposed. The short term fix involves using a temporary file on the RecRM leader to avoid the mmexpelnode when a node leaves the domain while maintaining quorum. This should provide temporary relief for the customer while working on the long term fix.

The long term fix is what this RFE is for. It involves adding a new option to stoprpnode to bypass the mmexpelnode.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 2, 2020

    It is delivered in RSCT 3.2.4 for DB2

  • Guest
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    |     Oct 11, 2017

    Any update on this RFE ? it is important to get this feature to replace the current workaround. thanks.

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