Unless specifically noted otherwise, this history of problems fixed for ESS5.3.6_IMAGE applies for all supported platforms.
Problems fixed in ESS5.3.6_IMAGE [July 29, 2020]
- This is the latest supported ESS5.3.6 installation image.
Readme file for:ESS Readme header
Product/Component Release:5.3.6
Update Name:ESS_DME_BASEIMAGE-5.3.6-ppc64LE-Linux
Fix ID:ESS_DME_BASEIMAGE-5.3.6-ppc64LE-Linux
Publication Date:30 July 2020
Last modified date:30 July 2020
Online version of the readme file:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=isg400005062
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_DME_BASEIMAGE-5.3.6-ppc64LE-Linux |
General Issues
Installing ESS5.3.6_IMAGE
Complete the following steps:
Notices
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Package information
This tar image contains the latest ESS 5.3.6 FixPack Image.
Update (tar file) contents:
README
changelog
IBM Spectrum Scale for IBM Elastic Storage Server
Version 5.3.6 for ppc64le Architecture
Package Description - Datamanagement Edition
IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS) Datamanagement Edition ver
5.3.6 for ppc64le architecture is composed of various
components tested together for compatibility and correctness.
Key components are RHEL, IBM Spectrum Scale RAID V5.0.5-1 efix3
and Power System Firmware.
1.0 Summary of changes in ESS ver 5.3.6 for ppc64le
a) ESS core
- IBM Spectrum Scale V5.0.5-1 efix3
- IBM Spectrum Scale RAID V5.0.5-1 efix3
- Change from all previous versions of ESS
b) Support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7
- Change from previous versions of ESS
- See sections 4.4 for further details
- kernel release 3.10.0-1062.26.1.el7.ppc64le
c) Support of MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.9-0.1.7.3
- Changes from ESS 5.3.5.2
d) Support for 10GE Ethernet Adapter (Shiner-T) Copper
- Same as ESS 5.3.5.2
e) Support for CES node deployment (ppc64le only)
- Support for deploying 5148-22L ESS Protocol Nodes
- Upgrading ESS Protocol nodes now supported
- Consult the Quick Deployment Guide for further information
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 (ppc64le only)
- 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)
- IBM Elastic Storage Server Protocol Node Two Socket (5148-22L)
h) Support for MES upgrade (PPC64LE models only)
- GLxC models not supported
- Hybrid models not supported
I) Support for IBM Elastic Storage Server expansion model 106 (5147-106)
J) Support for new ESS configurations
- GL5S
- GL5C
- GL8C
- GH22
- 14TB drives
K) Added support for harware callhome i.e. node callhome for Storage
servers and expansion model.
2.0 Upgrade is supported from 5.1.1 or higher. Contact IBM Service for upgrade
from an earlier version.
- Offline upgrades can be done directly from any previous version
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 5.3.6
4.1 Manifest
gss_install 5.3.6-20200727T144830Z_ppc64le_datamanagement
gpfs.adv 5.0.5-1.3 sha256:be140bacf686e670a2c635270375e5dcae11eeb323c7e74c74e29f35bbe70dff
gpfs.base 5.0.5-1.3 sha256:97e5ba2776cec78ae46dd26ef05f91c384f060ad9a79be371fd7364eb5381c60
gpfs.callhome-ecc-client 5.0.5-1 sha256:3ce8728c4cfee23d545259c008048ed6afabe4d8edfae203fa37243dccb015fa
gpfs.compression 5.0.5-1.3 sha256:eee62e8e27c1a2c48e3b1ae7d937145f317ec304d84f6975ae1d3e9dd30d5d0c
gpfs.crypto 5.0.5-1.3 sha256:bf6b7d46960a68b73d968e17485292943bd5a36d84c4a5e5014ed5366fd9cc4d
gpfs.docs 5.0.5-1.3 sha256:04259787ca925ef4a6af3ad922c48aa8351301793ab1320a5ca0a2110375b636
gpfs.ess.firmware 6.0.0-3 sha256:4b374730d38e1390f9b96fcb9c8d59365bab318f2c6f5de4e49aed314b63bba9
gpfs.gnr 5.0.5-1.3 sha256:ea443d14854b502ef35b82fd89dc9c02b4b7b94e0d4c536f5a7a3b8da8a57df4
gpfs.gnr.support-ess3000 1.0.0-1 sha256:6c8b8f8791f2261760956f5ca36d2b6110df0b055d482a440b53654f8dcef489
gpfs.gnr.support-essbase 1.0.0-1 sha256:b77394d33c95cc7ec544f379cee4d4c84fc2e5a6dc1cef770ad18008305be8b7
gpfs.gpl 5.0.5-1.3 sha256:63f4cba80158029ae980803b888de4a8fb886a5b21ef07c8510e445c38c24b2f
gpfs.gskit 8.0.55-12 sha256:be9eb508317f7aaa37b6eb99ce9d8731ba19a87e9870c146495095987d0d831a
gpfs.gss.pmsensors 5.0.5-1.el7 sha256:a5d6f62f62d96d90f6d42d7fd40aff3d89f47ffa1cb0ae0f1bb18a850b13d8ab
gpfs.java 5.0.5-1 sha256:fc73e76a1ebb35fe4c23de08f9a51a3e3c95d4579869d927f60f53e6eaacf62d
gpfs.kafka 5.0.5-1 sha256:b852aced27e9b7929014f361e4a36bc2fac560bde8589ead1524669e65b5c14b
gpfs.librdkafka 5.0.5-1 sha256:01a35e0823fd3e352791add8ca5e7b47c138940284779d10631b1cc0803a3fe4
gpfs.license.dmd 5.0.5-1.3 sha256:0afc2acefa913e7eceace9ac5115c07f5e2ca45fb3fceb2bc6802ed9ee0ccf94
gpfs.msg.en_US 5.0.5-1.3 sha256:7ee44c58ab9087b73fc388a4e0245a0fb02063414d69202361abe130e8be519c
esagent.pLinux 4.5.5-0 sha256:c63646e65e1cdf7d51467e22901b2a2a2c8074150f6bed69ff01fa73a3b77412
gpfs.gss.tools 5.3.6-1.el7 sha256:d47fc5a10bff1dc9448b4e75fc6cad213361c8e76c80c7bc2d537144b7c6a6a7
gpfs.gss.xcat 5.3.6-1.el7 sha256:ab388c35753d4554611ca224b5ecd2063aeac538b00f6827a44f1efcc35cd74d
mofed 4.9-0.1.7.3 sha256:eb3f6aa13a394a218b8ecbde25138493c69dcc800e5236265f25f577aca41474
perl-xCAT 4:2.15.1-snap202003041643 sha256:8689de607ec5d53503b876e31d6b34d63a38155c9734e712b39403683b206196
xCAT 2.15.1-snap202003041643 sha256:ffc68a658188a0c717ce0cab75fe6290bcdacc138703eb83f58f30cfca0c4a2b
xCAT-buildkit 4:2.15.1-snap202003041643 sha256:fd66635db4699eeeab47295a60085ec5bffb26c8952a1f56e31d8ffe7fe6c060
xCAT-client 4:2.15.1-snap202003041643 sha256:78d1f5ada5a9bb02b7a42280a463306291b867cf835f609de72d0b70bc172f40
xCAT-genesis-scripts-ppc64 1:2.15.1-snap202003041643 sha256:f24793710fa3a68fde8e2a7f1685e91b29033ff3b8ecc161874fb446f1bb7486
xCAT-genesis-scripts-x86_64 1:2.15.1-snap202003041643 sha256:7c01355f533f1334af1e57addb62c2336695b9549465922abe394a2d0d0c6111
xCAT-probe 4:2.15.1-snap202003041643 sha256:df740a56e1f9f61dac9068616965bec9293a0b4bbb4080235d8e13937d76aaa0
xCAT-server 4:2.15.1-snap202003041643 sha256:344b1fb74fd5209735bc78f188c56ba0178d4d65672d812ef7b488f5218a913f
elilo-xcat 3.14-4 sha256:08f4de02499b99a47008ec2d23a009284d9a00bc68d7cc0114db504aeef9e5ca
goconserver 0.3.2-snap201909171016 sha256:12cb8b351be4cb7f9b2c3a558e1e8c98edec886e4a2d039101420300180e11da
grub2-xcat 2.02-0.76.el7.1.snap201905160255sha256:dea8ba99d831d86f2a79f9eff717bc312ff47cc9a75824fcc12bf7f841333abb
ipmitool-xcat 1.8.18-0 sha256:5e47287e1c2e9e0f33765b860bd0b650e14db4a71c363f089fdee6a72dc5c582
net-snmp-perl 1:5.7.2-20.ael7b sha256:ff3e3fb304883ebe048b19c4a0d9a7e6bcef6fd6a2acd541cdde25f152c10fab
perl-Crypt-CBC 2.33-2.el7 sha256:7668dcbed525b12f468c39d3bbb6e33e5a1d28a8e93167f7b848860073cdf9b5
perl-Crypt-Rijndael 1.09-2.ael7a sha256:fdacc6897cec0ad34f8b92c8853bd2c89fe75a62c3c5bcfd9f49256a20f920a5
perl-Expect 1.21-1 sha256:24e019d047d9661f9f03e3766f5d0787a28f822cfa2c5b7a2314aa6421de08b0
perl-HTML-Form 6.03-6.el7 sha256:c17f315b4b3c922ef093e536622a14314fe16861d0e70952e99c1dab2681fbaa
perl-HTTP-Async 0.30-2 sha256:0583df3c3b386f4ac22eb1f4bf7051fcf03e658b88caa71e845c11cae2bc1ec8
perl-IO-Tty 1.07-1 sha256:fa7dc7e82fc5db07c5d44d304c4e4070129e25b73ab0851fda0dc769a1a23a4b
perl-Net-HTTPS-NB 0.14-2 sha256:f70c38ccb6b0106c529fdfc756a6304e09c71d7b797c9a92d0499d4cc3fd7686
perl-Net-Telnet 3.03-19.el7 sha256:9ff39b0422a7b1c255b433b3f102311a530d91725dac3379e66c1dc15419bbcc
syslinux-xcat 3.86-2 sha256:767a51a26f85d05c4d44902135ec52f6a944909eb1acc32d1664407af3c01d9c
xCAT-genesis-base-ppc64 2:2.14.5-snap201811160710 sha256:6b0f9dd7e67fb5657509825c3c4c15231d3a7e006471e94649f67086ddf77aef
xCAT-genesis-base-x86_64 2:2.14.5-snap201811190037 sha256:de19629e32bb5e9620d38e25322c4de751c0a0bb97c73ac4f710272a1789ac94
xnba-undi 1.0.3-131028 sha256:76233c31ec5fa7eca0fafc4fce6adda2535f251e46b7735bec5c722183822386
gpfs.gss.pmcollector 5.0.5-1.el7 sha256:cde198fac0f7c4e6236e2050123b501271e75999b99628286716d333a1d9ecc7
gpfs.gui 5.0.5-1 sha256:ad0f412de9a2012bee99ba5b03d5aba2136f50625975bdf6d9dab6df0d37c033
01SV860_215_165 1.1-1 sha256:0cd7f7bacdfeec8675a38afd178f904a6b61d244914088ae130084c12826c4f3
pci.1014034A.51 19512900-1 sha256:e42f2944621adacbb6458137641f5b48e54543379123367b5004c800947f0a5c
python3 3.6.8-10.el7 sha256:770c8acc31db96cff7405228101820d59fbf76f2324a661b32f63b039d9d3a88
python3-libs 3.6.8-10.el7 sha256:7de8be7599ab6b5ba913e31bda18b77c7b4be96824158f877116d2fbf4eb714f
python3-pip 9.0.3-5.el7 sha256:9dc162ed30897d03b3f1dcd8159ad0a02bce70686cf927ff9cd0e4e6c377ebf5
python3-rpm-generators 6-2.el7 sha256:d69c8716cc220da8ea4a885df44247369a8235f9b6d382504940f2b4c81e584b
python3-setuptools 39.2.0-10.el7 sha256:c3c3aa618f901b7335c4285dc04cf3cc6c5d1881f12bff2717a04f09af4289c2
python3-wheel 0.31.1-4.el7 sha256:d1f2f2b728350dfa4915227cd633b79a8ff7a27be8b24842acb310ad0fbb8709
certifi 2019.6.16 sha256:046832c04d4e752f37383b628bc601a7ea7211496b4638f6514d0e5b9acc4939
chardet 3.0.4 sha256:fc323ffcaeaed0e0a02bf4d117757b98aed530d9ed4531e3e15460124c106691
idna 2.8 sha256:ea8b7f6188e6fa117537c3df7da9fc686d485087abf6ac197f9c46432f7e4a3c
requests 2.22.0 sha256:9cf5292fcd0f598c671cfc1e0d7d1a7f13bb8085e9a590f48c010551dc6c4b31
urllib3 1.25.3 sha256:b246607a25ac80bedac05c6f282e3cdaf3afb65420fd024ac94435cabe6e18d1
4.2 ESS ver 5.3.4 is shipped with OFED level
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.9-0.1.7.3 and it is installed and upgraded as
part of the ESS ver 5.3.6 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)
ESS ver 5.2.1 - FW860.40 (SV860_118)
ESS ver 5.2.2.1 - FW860.42 (SV860_138)
ESS ver 5.3.0 - FW860.42 (SV860_138)
ESS ver 5.3.0.1 - FW860.42 (SV860_138)
ESS ver 5.3.1 - FW860.42 (SV860_138)
ESS ver 5.3.1.1 - FW860.42 (SV860_138)
ESS ver 5.3.2 - FW860.51 (SV860_165)
ESS ver 5.3.2.1 - FW860.51 (SV860_165)
ESS ver 5.3.3 - FW860.60 (SV860_180)
ESS ver 5.3.4 - FW860.60 (SV860_180)
ESS ver 5.3.5 - FW860.60 (SV860_205)
ESS ver 5.3.6 - FW860.81 (SV860_215)
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)
ESS ver 5.2.1 - FW860.40 (SV860_118)
ESS ver 5.2.2.1 - FW860.42 (SV860_138)
ESS ver 5.3.0 - FW860.42 (SV860_138)
ESS ver 5.3.0.1 - FW860.42 (SV860_138)
ESS ver 5.3.1 - FW860.42 (SV860_138)
ESS ver 5.3.1.1 - FW860.42 (SV860_138)
ESS ver 5.3.2 - FW860.51 (SV860_165)
ESS ver 5.3.2.1 - FW860.51 (SV860_165)
ESS ver 5.3.3 - FW860.60 (SV860_180)
ESS ver 5.3.4 - FW860.60 (SV860_180)
ESS ver 5.3.5 - FW860.60 (SV860_205)
ESS ver 5.3.6 - FW860.81 (SV860_215)
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
ESS ver 5.2.1 - 17518300
ESS ver 5.2.2.1 - 17518300
ESS ver 5.3.0 - 17518300
ESS ver 5.3.0.1 - 17518300
ESS ver 5.3.1 - 18518200
ESS ver 5.3.1.1 - 18518200
ESS ver 5.3.2 - 19511000
ESS ver 5.3.2.1 - 19511000
ESS ver 5.3.3 - 19511400
ESS ver 5.3.4 - 19512200
ESS ver 5.3.5 - 19512300
ESS ver 5.3.6 - 19512900
4.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Level and update considerations
ESS 5.3.6s release is tested with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7.7 with Security Advisory RHSA-2020:2522(kernel),
RHSA-2020:1994(systemd) and RHBA-2020:0381(network manager).
Once errata kernel is applied it should show
kernel release: 3.10.0-1062.26.1.el7.ppc64le
Once errata systemd is applied it should show
systemd release: 219-67.el7_7.6.ppc64le
Once errata network manager is applied it should show
network manager release: 1.18.0-5.el7_7.2.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 5.3.6 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
- Elastic Storage Server: Protocols Deployment Guide
- Elastic Storage Server: Command reference
- IBM Spectrum Scale RAID: Administration
- Elastic Storage Server: Problem Determination Guide
- IBM Spectrum Scale RAID FAQ
Changelog for ESS5.3.6_IMAGE
Unless specifically noted otherwise, this history of problems fixed for ESS5.3.6_IMAGE applies for all supported platforms.
Problems fixed in ESS5.3.6_IMAGE [July 29, 2020]
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