Global Data Platform

From the Services page, enable the IBM Storage Fusion Global data platform service.

About this task

Important:

This service enablement applies Machine Config Operator changes in Red Hat® OpenShift®, and as a result, all compute nodes get restarted.
For more information about deployments and their supported IBM Storage Fusion services in IBM Storage Fusion, see IBM Storage Fusion Services support matrix.
To enable GDP on the infra node, manually create the ScaleCluster CR and set the infraNode:true. For more information, see Configuring Global Data Platform service on infrastructure nodes.

Procedure

Go to the Services page in the IBM Storage Fusion user interface.
In the Available section, click Global data platform tile.

In the Global Data Platform page, go through the details and click Install.

After you enable the Global Data Platform, you can view the service version and health status.

Table 1. Health states Global Data Platform service
State	Description
`Healthy`	The `Running` and `Ready` states for the following items indicate that the service is healthy: All the pods in `ibm-spectrum-scale` namespace are running. All the pods in `ibm-spectrum-scale-csi` namespace are running. GPFS Scale service is active on all the pods. The filesystem is mounted on all the nodes.
`Degraded`	If any of the following conditions are not met, then the service goes to a degraded state. Any one of the scale core pod statuses is not running per Recovery Group (RG) GPFS service is not active on any one of the pods per RG. If one of the PM collector pods is not running or all containers are not in the ready state. If one of the GUI pods is not running or all containers are not in the ready state.

From the ellipsis menu, you can download logs and view documentation. After you successfully collect the logs, a success notification gets displayed. The notification disappears automatically after some time.

If failures occur, go through the downloaded logs to understand the cause of the failure and fix the issue. For more information about service issues in IBM Storage Fusion, see Troubleshooting installation and upgrade issues in IBM Storage Fusion services.

What to do next

Important: Apply the mandatory IBM Storage Fusion 2.8.0 hotfix on top of 2.8.0 version. For more information about how to download the hotfix and the scope of issues covered in the hotfix, see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7157065 IBM Storage Fusion 2.8.0 hotfix.

to Remote file systems page of the user interface and connect to remote file systems. For the procedure to connect to remote file systems, see Connecting to remote IBM Storage Scale file systems.
To consume the remote file system by using Global Data Platform, see Static provisioning of Persistent Volume in filesystem and Dynamic provisioning of Persistent Volume in filesystem.
You can now install other available IBM Storage Fusion services.