>> We don?t have an official statement yet, however I did want to give you
>> all an indication of our early thinking on this.
>Er yes we do, from an IBM employee, because remember RedHat is now IBM
>owned, and the majority of the people making this decision are RedHat
>and thus IBM employees.
We don’t have an official statement yet, however I did want to give you all an
indication of our early thinking on this.
Our initial reaction is that this won’t change Scale’s support position on
CentOS, as documented in the FAQ: it’s not officially supported, we’ll make
best effort to support
I am seeking some help on a topic I know many of you care deeply about:
licensing costs
I am trying to gather some more information about a request that has come up a
couple of times, pricing for “data lakes”. I would like to understand better
what people are looking for here.
- Is it as
>> Mixing DSS and ESS in the same cluster is not a supported configuration.
>
> I know, it means you can never ever migrate your storage from DSS to ESS
> without a full backup and restore. Who with any significant amount of
> storage is going to want to do that? The logic behind this escapes me,
Jordi wrote:
“Both compute clusters join using multicluster setup the storage cluster. There
is no need both compute clusters see each other, they only need to see the
storage cluster. One of the clusters using the 10G, the other cluster using the
IPoIB interface.
You need at least three
Jonathan,
Can I ask you to file an RFE for this? And post the number here so others can
vote for it if they wish.
I don’t see any reason to defend an error message that is basically a shrug,
and the fix should be straightforward (i.e. bail out). However, email threads
tend to get lost,
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
Program Director
Offering
Folks,
We are looking for one or two users willing to be Beta participants
specifically for NFS 4.1. In order to participate, your company has to be
willing to sign NDAs and other legal documents - I know that’s always a
challenge for some of us!
And for complicated reasons, you need to be an
On a non-technical note, I wanted to remind everybody that if you’re doing a
migration and you need to temporarily run both systems, IBM licensing allows
you to do that without ceremony or formality, for up to 90 days under a thing
called the “Temporary Additional Use Policy”. You don’t need to
> i guess that's what he is looking for ... but Simon has a valid point.
> Against what would we count bug fixes, as it is a .0 release ? ;)
The previous Mod level?
But really, I'd like to know what the users think would be most useful to them.
So I've created an RFE and invite people to
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.
Carl Zetie
Program Director
Offering Management
Spectrum Scale
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Folks,
I’m looking for a handful of volunteers who are using rsync with Scale and
willing to jump on a 15 minute call (separate calls for each volunteer, to be
clear) to discuss how you are using rsync, what features are essential to you,
what its shortcomings are, and anything else you want
Inspired by the RHEL 7.8 compatibility issues (and some earlier incidents too),
we have adopted a new practice for the Scale FAQ where we will list new distro
releases explicitly with a note indicating if they are not yet supported. In
the past we should say things like “7.7.xxx or later” for
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
Carl Zetie
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Spectrum Scale
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Scale 4.2.3.22 with support for RHEL 7.8 is now on Fix Central
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Right now the dev/test team is working flat-out to try to get RHEL 7.8
supported with the upcoming 5.0.5 release, expected this month.
We haven't yet made a decision about 5.0.4.4. It will depend on what we learn
about the changes required to support RHEL 7.8, and whether those are small
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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From PS K:
>Does SS object protocol support S3a and S3n?
Can you share some more details of your requirements, use case, etc., either
here on the list or privately with me?
We’re currently looking at the strategic direction of our S3 support. As Brian
said, today it’s strictly the
Dean Flanders:
> Thanks for the clarification. I have always heard the term "existing
> customers" so originally I thought we were fine,
> but this is the first time I have seen the term "existing systems". However,
> it seems what I said before is mostly correct,
> eventually all customers will
Rob Horton wrote:
>I'm not sure what the issue is between DDN and IBM (although I've heard
>various rumors)
>but I really wish they would sort something out.
Yes, it’s a pain. IBM and DDN are trying very hard to work something out, but
it’s hard to get all the ‘I’s dotted and ‘T’s crossed with
>Now the question, ESS is license per Drive or by capacity?
I apologize for the confusion. Within IBM Storage when we say “capacity”
licensing we use that as an umbrella term for both Per TB/PB *or* Per Drive
(HDD or SSD). This is contrasted with “processor” metrics including Socket and
the
> From my understanding existing customers from DDN, Lenovo, etc. that have v4
> with socket based licenses
>are not entitled v5 licenses socket licenses. Is that a correct understanding?
It is not, and I apologize in advance for the length of this explanation. I
want to be precise and as
Folks, I need to correct a common misunderstanding that is perpetuated here:
> As IBM has completely switched to capacity based licensing in order to use SS
> v5
For new customers, Scale is priced Per TB (we also have Per PB licenses now for
convenience). This transition was completed in
So far we have not revisited the EOS date for 4.2.3, but I would not rule it
out entirely if the lockdown continues well into the summer. If we did, the
next likely EOS date would be April 30th.
Even if we do postpone the date for 4.2.3, keep two other dates in mind for
planning:
- RHEL 6
Ken wrote:
> It may be that some HPC users "have to"
> reverify the results of their computations as being exactly the same as a
> previous software stack and that is not a minor task. Any change may
> require this verification process.
How deep does “any change” go? Mod level? PTF? Efix? OS
To reiterate what’s been said on this thread, and to reaffirm the official IBM
position:
* Scale 4.2 reaches EOS in September 2020, and RHEL6 not long after. In
fact, the reason we have postponed 4.2 EOS for so long is precisely because it
is the last Scale release to support RHEL6, and
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
Offering Management
In response to various questions…
Yes, the wrong file was originally linked. It should be fixed now.
Yes, you can definitely use this edition in your test labs. We want to make it
as easy as possible for you to experiment with new features, config changes,
and releases so that you can adopt
Spectrum Scale Developer Edition is now available for free download on the IBM
Marketplace:
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/scale-out-file-and-object-storage
This is full-function DME, no time restrictions, limited to 12TB per cluster.
NO production use or support!
It’s likely that
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