with the inevitable IBM processes…
If interested, please contact me off-list.
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“We” meaning Spectrum Scale development.
To reiterate, so far we don’t think this changes Spectrum Scale’s existing
policy on CentOS support.
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.
We’ll share more as soon as we know it ourselves.
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while ago (please thread your comments!):
https://ssug-poweraiug.slack.com/archives/CEVVCEE8M/p1605815075188800
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to help you despite limits on our knowledge
of the OEM systems…).
--CZ
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worrying about a licensing
penalty.
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, whereas RFEs are tracked, managed, and monitored (and there
is now a new Systems-wide initiative to report and measure responsiveness.)
Thanks,
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Developer Edition 5.0.5.1 is now available for download
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Folks,
We’re gathering some data on how people consume PTFs for Scale. There is a very
brief survey online, and we’d appreciate all responses. No identifying
information is collected.
Survey: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5727746/47520248d614
Thanks,
Carl Zetie
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Offering
to be an end user company not a Business
Partner. Sorry.
If you are interested please contact Jodi Everdon - jever...@us.ibm.com
*off-list*. If you happen to know who your IBM acct rep is and can provide that
name to Jodi, that will jump-start the process.
Thanks,
Carl Zetie
Program Director
Offering
to register, ask
beforehand, etc. Just go ahead.
If you need the additional usage for more than 90 days, contact your seller and
we’ll figure something out.
Regards
Carl Zetie
Program Director
Offering Management
Spectrum Scale
(919) 473 3318 ][ Research Triangle Park
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people to submit their comments and votes
there:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe_ID=142683
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Achim, I think the request here (lost in translation?) is for a list of the
bugs that 5.0.5.0 addresses. And we're currently looking to see if we can
generate that list.
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Offering Management
Spectrum Scale
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below.
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” for the supported release
level, and not say anything at all about new OS releases until they were
supported. That would cause confusion when 7.8 came along, since 7.8 is
definitely later than 7.7.xxx... Hopefully this small change will help you with
your admin.
Regards,
Carl Zetie
Program
JAB> Is 5.x supported in 7.8 yet?
Support is planned for 5.0.5 later this month, subject to final regression
testing now in progress
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Scale 4.2.3.22 with support for RHEL 7.8 is now on Fix Central
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security fixes. There is no additional charge for
this: it's included in your existing S
As soon as I know more, I'll share it here.
Carl Zetie
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There’s an RFE related to this: RFE 125955
(https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe_ID=125955)
I recommend that people add their votes and comments there as well as
discussing it here in the UG.
Carl Zetie
Program Director
Offering Management
Spectrum Scale
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nal” S3 protocol, but we are evaluating
where to go next.
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N and IBM are working together to find a path forward for GridScaler
owners to get past this problem, and once again I ask for your patience as we
get the details right.
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don’t Say”.
Regards,
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ven expose the fact that the storage is provided by Scale.)
**(Imagine trying to figure out the “real” number of drives in a high-end
storage array that does RAIDing, hides some drives as spares, offers thin
provisioning, etc. Or on public cloud where the “drives” are all virtual.)
Carl Ze
V5, you have to move to a new supplier, and
consequently you have to move to Capacity licensing. But once again, it's not
that moving from V4 to V5 requires a change of metric; it's moving to a new
system from a new supplier.
I hope that helps to make things clearer.
Carl Zetie
Program
e both transitions occurred around roughly the same
time period.
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le "5.next"
As much as possible we are going to try to stick to our release cadence of
twice a year even through these difficulties, including designating 5.0.5 for
Extended Updates.
"Keep Calm and Scale Out".
Carl Zetie
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Offering Management
Spec
might change…
Thanks,
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multiple OS releases; and the combination of Scale EUS and RHEL EUS will allow
you to stay on a stable environment for a long time.
EUS for Scale is no-charge, it is included as a standard part of your S
Regards,
Carl Zetie
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Spectrum Scale & Spectrum Disc
We are accepting nominations for IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.5 Beta participation
here:
https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5356255/ee853c3af96a
The Beta begins in mid-February.
Please note that you’ll need your IBM account rep to nominate you.
Carl Zetie
Program Director
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people via the
same links…
Regards
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that some people entirely new to Scale will find their way here to
the user group Slack channel and mailing list, so I thank you in advance for
making them welcome, and letting them know about the wealth of online
information for Scale, including the email address sc...@us.ibm.com
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Program
licensing transaction. (Don't even get
me started on client licenses).
regards,
Carl Zetie
Program Director
Offering Management for Spectrum Scale, IBM
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ing beforehand including the UG, and responses ranged
from disinterest to strong enthusiasm.)
regards,
Carl Zetie
Program Director
Offering Management for Spectrum Scale, IBM
(540) 882 9353 ][ Research Triangle Park
ca...@us.ibm.
of the comments are read and processed by our information design team.
regards,
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>I'm not sure how we go about asking IBM to correct their documentation, but
>expect someone in the user group will have some idea.
File an RFE against Scale and I will route it to the right place.
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Offering Manager for Spectrum Scale, IBM
(540) 882 9353 ][ Re
course. The smallest size wins, and the 8KiB number is coming from the 1M,
not the 4M. (Thanks, Sven).
regards,
Carl Zetie
Offering Manager for Spectrum Scale, IBM
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separate images for a
long time, and there
was a good reason why we started doing it. But it's not clear that the original
reasons
are still relevant. However, we don't want to make that assumption without
asking first.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Carl Zetie
Offering Manager
Hi Richard,
KC says "IBM Spectrum Scale™ can host a maximum of 1,000 SMB shares. There must
be less than 3,000 SMB connections per protocol node and less than 20,000 SMB
connections across all protocol nodes."
Are those the numbers you are looking for?
Carl Zetie
Offeri
on or keep count of clients or pay a penalty for putting clients in a
separate compute cluster or ...
BTW, I'll be at the UG in London and (probably) in Boston, if anybody wants to
talk licensing...
Carl Zetie
Offering Manager for Spectrum Scale, IBM
(540) 882 9353 ][ Researc
It does look like that link is broken, thanks for letting us know.
If you click on the Menu dropdown at the top of the page that says "Downloads"
you'll see a link to Fix Central that takes you to the right place.
Carl Zetie
Offering Manager for Spectrum Scale, IBM
(540
From the very newest documentation (emphasis added):
"When you migrate a cluster from an earlier version to 5.0.0 or later, the value of maxblocksize stays the same. However, if maxblocksize was set to DEFAULT in the earlier version of the cluster, then migrating it to 5.0.0 or later sets it
Maybe this would make for a good session at a future user group meeting -- perhaps as an interactive session? IBM could potentially provide a facilitator from our Design practice.
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capability in the future.
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abyte" (really a tebibyte) and the "Decimal Terabyte"
(an actual terabyte). When we made the capacity license we had to decide which
one to use, and we decided to err on the side of giving people the larger
amount.
Carl Zetie
Offering Manager for Spectrum Scale, IBM
(540
Hi Richard,
I'm always happy to have a separate conversation if you have any questions
about licensing. Ping me on my email address below.
Same goes for anybody else who won't be at SC17.
Carl Zetie
Offering Manager for Spectrum Scale, IBM
(540) 882 9353 ][ Research Triangle Park
>I *need* to see the presentation from the licensing session ? everyone?s
>favourite topic ?
I believe (hope?) that's just a placeholder, and we'll actually use the time
for something more engaging...
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announcing the
INTENTION
to drop support in some future release, and encourage you to (a) start making
plans on
migration to a supported alternative, and (b) chime in on what you need in
order to be
able to satisfactorily migrate if our proposed alternative is not adequate.
regards,
Carl Zetie
Folks,
On behalf of Scale development, we're trying to gather a better picture of how GPFS and Scale users are deploying the product: what versions you run, what OSes you use, what major features of the product you use, and so on.
Simon Thompson and Bob Oesterlin kindly agreed to let us send
I checked the draft documentation for 4.2.3, and here is the list of what is planned.
As usual -- please remember this is an Intention not a commitment, and subject to change between now and the release.
regards,Carl
-Y optionAdded the -Y option to the following
sts remain Private. If you have one that you want
flipped, please contact me off-list with the request number
regards,
Carl
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