mmperfmon query

The new Spectrum Scale has been out for a few weeks now, so I think I should introduce a new function that’s been added for the purpose of performance monitoring.
Some of you may remember the performance monitor that comes with GSS. Its now been added to Spectrum Scale, and is recording various metrics for GPFS, Object, NFS, and SMB (depending on what you have installed). It will start automatically for some metrics (there are other more complex ones that can be enabled). So here’s a few variations to introduce the new command to look at the metrics being gathered.

mmperfmon query Metric[,Metric....]  |  Key[,Key...]  | NamedQuery  [StartTime EndTime | Duration] [ options ]

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Meet the Devs #3

GPFS: Meet the Devs #3
The third Meet the GPFS Developers ‘coffee shop’ meet has been announced.

The day will give members the opportunity to meet the developers and get hands on beta exploration and test of unreleased GPFS functions.

Date: 29th July 2015
Time: 11am-3pm
Location: IBM, Birmingham Road, Warwick, Warwickshire,CV34 5JL

Agenda:
– Data analytic workloads – development to show and tell UK work on establishing use cases and tighter integration of Spark on top of GPFS – Show the GUI coming in 4.2 – Discuss 4.2 and beyond roadmap – How would you like IP management to work for protocol access? – Optional – Team can demo & discuss NFS/SMB/Object integration into Scale

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Please register in advance with Claire O’Toole, GPFS User Group Secretary via emailĀ GPFS UG Secretary

We hope to see you there!