October 7, 2014

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) available for Linux on System z

IBM has announced the availability of the General Parallel File System (GPFS) aka Elastic Storage for Linux on System z. It's the new 4.1 version and for zLinux the minimum distribution requirements are
  • RHEL 6.5 + latest z stream patches
  • RHEL 7.0
  • SLES 11 SP3 + latest maintenance patches 
 There is also a short Redbook solution guide available.