Unless specifically noted otherwise, this history of problems fixed for ESS5.2_IMAGE applies for all supported platforms.
Problems fixed in ESS5.2.0_IMAGE [Aug 28, 2017]
- This is the latest supported ESS5.2.0 installation image.
Readme file for:ESS Readme header
Product/Component Release:5.2.0
Update Name:ESS_STD_BASEIMAGE-5.2.0-ppc64LE-Linux
Fix ID:ESS_STD_BASEIMAGE-5.2.0-ppc64LE-Linux
Publication Date:29 August 2017
Last modified date:29 August 2017
Online version of the readme file:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=isg400003491
Important: The most current version of the readme file can always be found online.
Below is a list of components, platforms, and file names that apply to this Readme file.
| Product/Component Name: | Platform: | Fix: |
| IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS) | Linux PPC64LE RHEL | ESS_STD_BASEIMAGE-5.2.0-ppc64LE-Linux |
General Issues
Installing ESS5.2.0_IMAGE
Complete the following steps:
Notices
None.
Package information
This tar image contains the latest ESS 5.2.0 FixPack Image.
Update (tar file) contents:
README
changelog
IBM Spectrum Scale for IBM Elastic Storage Server
Version 5.2.0 for ppc64le Architecture
Package Description - Standard Edition
IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS) Standard Edition ver
5.2.0 for ppc64le architecture is composed of various
components tested together for compatibility and correctness.
Key components are RHEL, IBM Spectrum Scale RAID V4.2.3-4,
and Power System Firmware.
1.0 Summary of changes in ESS ver 5.2.0 for ppc64le
a) ESS core
- IBM Spectrum Scale V4.2.3 PTF4
- IBM Spectrum Scale RAID V4.2.3 PTF4
- Change from all previous versions of ESS
b) Support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
- Change from previous versions of ESS
- See sections 4.4 for further details
- kernel release 3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64le
c) Support of MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.1-1.0.2.3
- Change from ESS 5.1.x
- Change from 4.x and earlier versions
- No change of network adapter (IB and Ethernet) support
from ESS 5.0
d) Support for 10GE Ethernet Adapter (Shiner-T) Copper
- Same as ESS 5.1
e) Install Toolkit
- Change from all previous versions of ESS
See Quick Deployment Guide mentioned
in section 5.0 for further details.
f) Updated firmware rpm
- Changes from all previous versions of ESS
- Support for updated system, SAS RAID Internal
Adapter and drive FW.
g) Support of IBM Elastic Storage Server 5147 and 5148
- IBM Elastic Storage Server expansion model 084 (5147-084)
- IBM Elastic Storage Server expansion model 024 (5147-024)
- IBM Elastic Storage Server Management Server (5148-21L)
- IBM Elastic Storage Server Data Server (5148-22L)
2.0 Information if upgrading from versions 3.5.5 and earlier,
4.0.x and 4.5
You must upgrade to ESS 4.5.2 or a later level to mitigate an
issue which may damage an IBM Spectrum Scale RAID Recovery Group
and associated Network Shared Disks where certain concurrent
hardware faults along with back levels of firmware and the
Linux kernel, may cause many physical disks to appear to be
simultaneously unavailable. This in turn may lead an IBM Spectrum
Scale RAID Recovery Group to become damaged, and the server to
halt, leading to unavailability of the file system using the
Network Shared Disks (NSDs) in that Recovery Group or possible
data loss.
3.0 Known Issues
List of known issues can be found in Elastic Storage Server:
Quick Deployment Guide available in IBM Knowledge Center.
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYSP8/sts_welcome.html
4.0 Following are the release level of various components of
ESS ver 5.2.0
4.1 Manifest
gss_install 5.2.0-20170826T202505Z_ppc64le_standard
gpfs.base 4.2.3-4 md5:6fbd2edd3363e5f9a0f86d0ae221392d
gpfs.callhome 4.2.3-4.000.el7 md5:7d18764e181711006e3a52c75e32980f
gpfs.callhome-ecc-client 4.2.3-4.000 md5:dd4a5f620243384a4eb86f05561c6aa7
gpfs.docs 4.2.3-4 md5:e2a13dd30c32850c77d9c302a4582d9d
gpfs.ext 4.2.3-4 md5:0e5e611ca67f5a161f2bce317e2fae49
gpfs.gnr 4.2.3-4 md5:80d1229ab59b4b0aacf22a90dffb3010
gpfs.gnr.support-ibm2u24 1.0.0-0 md5:06938f85f46ac551fff246a684e16873
gpfs.gnr.support-ibm5u84 1.0.0-1 md5:67356c2b6605a3301b7a4b3c79b8535f
gpfs.gpl 4.2.3-4 md5:7488db093d8782f012515d330864d3b4
gpfs.gskit 8.0.50-75 md5:c337669fa7252d3cc6d766220c3d49b6
gpfs.gss.firmware 4.2.0-8 md5:d8fa165c22b54b4d56665b5c8a6c4fa1
gpfs.gss.pmsensors 4.2.3-4.el7 md5:551249e70fb421173c5f6be42316d2b0
gpfs.java 4.2.3-4 md5:c92da99f3546ca15db04fcd474b635eb
gpfs.license.std 4.2.3-4 md5:b1286fb622679faafae70afca9804daf
gpfs.msg.en_US 4.2.3-4 md5:8c9c6addda1db2addac1cd311e1f7aac
esagent.pLinux 4.2.0-9 md5:3adb89f4a4edf5f8cfc2ffad0536dc83
gpfs.gss.tools 5.2.0-1.0.195.g33e7c01.el7 md5:b25db976d328e8d4b4e68d614909def7
gpfs.gss.xcat 5.2.0-1.0.195.g33e7c01.el7 md5:77e186a06002fbbe54d70a72bfd77d6b
mofed 4.1-1.0.2.3 md5:26162e150b4ed523ddd735cbf86d47ac
perl-xCAT 4:2.13.5-snap201706291141 md5:ac43a236052cfdfcfbb86f76da1c4e62
xCAT 2.13.5-snap201706291141 md5:706bd9fe06b47df8a064fdb4b7dfb5cb
xCAT-buildkit 4:2.13.5-snap201706291141 md5:c4d77a898611a5871fa384cdec08a331
xCAT-client 4:2.13.5-snap201706291141 md5:220dd9bacc581a4c62f6bd35d96dcba6
xCAT-genesis-scripts-ppc64 1:2.13.5-snap201706291141 md5:8dbc117cde9efb6ff0fbec5d1424e1d3
xCAT-genesis-scripts-x86_64 1:2.13.5-snap201706291141 md5:761deedfc4744f647933101c1647e335
xCAT-probe 4:2.13.5-snap201706291141 md5:af8d72acac23a56e129e5a1b8b04ae70
xCAT-server 4:2.13.5-snap201706291141 md5:41aea3112be6a4a9fbd66474f96286de
conserver-xcat 8.2.1-1 md5:619d08a8bd195db3eadd36115de643d3
elilo-xcat 3.14-4 md5:820e44cc9c1d5f6c58c38ffc6e6f0c4c
grub2-xcat 2.02-0.16.el7.snap201506090204 md5:5bf0a98214ce4968cb78204490e0880b
ipmitool-xcat 1.8.18-0 md5:de9221a182211ed4c399e7fb3f1343cf
net-snmp-perl 1:5.7.2-20.ael7b md5:26572b232d1893db2f1622dee2b6ed11
perl-Crypt-CBC 2.33-2.el7 md5:47708f29c78536594d04216dc294ccc1
perl-Crypt-Rijndael 1.09-2.ael7a md5:209e3f1a49d90d496d900a18ddb7de9a
perl-Expect 1.21-1 md5:d361407120d10082b61b73d8a46c900c
perl-HTML-Form 6.03-6.el7 md5:86eee2ed8f7418053272e007edd61359
perl-HTTP-Async 0.30-2 md5:7d9a87bd8e181a2fa85c108cfbe0983d
perl-IO-Stty 0.03-1 md5:e89b7cc768fa31b34d892ec4f5381b42
perl-IO-Tty 1.07-1 md5:6f76a27b13d626692fe7dcf0824d22fa
perl-Net-HTTPS-NB 0.14-2 md5:dc14fb627abb83f71dd7f3e88a168152
perl-Net-Telnet 3.03-19.el7 md5:8174350e30f127292ad5f720a737be00
perl-SOAP-Lite 0.710.08-1 md5:2c09cf35829a955f6b7c49f980342179
syslinux-xcat 3.86-2 md5:bba2c71eac077b4a40f8813041a6fdcf
xCAT-genesis-base-ppc64 2:2.13.2-snap201702150049 md5:39af923ac06f3512362467985c95416a
xCAT-genesis-base-x86_64 2:2.13.2-snap201702200120 md5:47aa8b5b1d7fe95e9197442ec54a7f5b
xnba-undi 1.0.3-131028 md5:0f407213b3e23aaf4b2c99221231512e
gpfs.gss.pmcollector 4.2.3-4.el7 md5:e90b9ab6a38f729e49293c9e180793fd
gpfs.gui 4.2.3-4 md5:c449d95898562f4bb4ba7959b45fd062
01SV860_109_056 1.1-1 md5:2a3efceda19b546da008215e0e5b139a
4.2 ESS ver 5.2.0 is shipped with OFED level
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.1-1.0.2.3 (OFED-4.1-1.0.2.3)
It is installed and upgraded as part of the ESS ver 5.2.0 solution.
It is highly recommended not to install or update OFED outside the
ESS solution.
4.3 ESS Server Node System Firmware and IBM PCIe3 x8 Cache SAS RAID
Internal Adapter Firmware
IBM Elastic Storage Server Data Server (5148-22L) is used as the
IO Server Node and IBM Elastic Storage Server Management Server
(5148-21L) is used as ESS Management Server (EMS) node.
Following are the level of the system firmware and RAID internal
adapter firmware.
Item Firmware
IBM Elastic Storage Server ESS ver 5.1.0 - FW860.21 (SV860_096)
Data Server 5148-22L ESS ver 5.1.1 - FW860.30 (SV860_103)
ESS ver 5.2.0 - FW860.31 (SV860_109)
IBM Elastic Storage Server ESS ver 5.1.0 - FW860.21 (SV860_096)
Management Server 5148-21L ESS ver 5.1.1 - FW860.30 (SV860_103)
ESS ver 5.2.0 - FW860.31 (SV860_109)
IBM PCIe x8 Cache SAS ESS ver 5.1.0 - 15511800
RAID Internal Adapter ESS ver 5.1.1 - 15511800
ESS ver 5.2.0 - 16519500
4.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Level and update considerations
ESS 5.2.0 release is tested with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7.3 with Security Advisory RHSA-2017:2437.
kernel release: 3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64le
Once errata kernel is applied it should show
kernel release: 3.10.0-514.28.1.el7.ppc64le
User can update RHEL as needed to address fixes and security
updates. It is highly recommended to limit errata updates
applied to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system used
in the ESS solution to security errata or errata updates requested
by service. For more information visit Red Hat's solution article
on applying only security updates:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/10021
4.5 Package location when shipped from factory
ESS 5.2.0 package when shipped from factory is located in /home/deploy
directory of the ESS Management Server (EMS) node. Review /home/deploy
directory of the EMS node for other support packages required for this
release.
5.0 Deployment and Administration Guide
Deployment and Administration Guides are available in
IBM Knowledge Center.
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYSP8/sts_welcome.html
- Elastic Storage Server: Quick Deployment Guide
- Deploying the Elastic Storage Server
- IBM Spectrum Scale RAID: Administration
- Elastic Storage Server: Problem Determination Guide
- IBM Spectrum Scale RAID FAQ
Changelog for ESS5.2.0_IMAGE
Unless specifically noted otherwise, this history of problems fixed for ESS5.2_IMAGE applies for all supported platforms.
Problems fixed in ESS5.2.0_IMAGE [Aug 28, 2017]
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