Unless specifically noted otherwise, this history of problems fixed for ESS5.3.7.2_IMAGE applies for all supported platforms.
Problems fixed in ESS5.3.7.2_IMAGE [Jul 23, 2021]
- This is the latest supported ESS5.3.7.2 installation image.
Readme file for:ESS Readme header
Product/Component Release:5.3.7.2
Update Name:ESS_DAE_BASEIMAGE-5.3.7.2-ppc64LE-Linux
Fix ID:ESS_DAE_BASEIMAGE-5.3.7.2-ppc64LE-Linux
Publication Date:23 July 2021
Last modified date:23 July 2021
Online version of the readme file:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=isg400005388
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_DAE_BASEIMAGE-5.3.7.2-ppc64LE-Linux |
General Issues
Installing ESS5.3.7.2_IMAGE
Complete the following steps:
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Package information
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README
changelog
BM Spectrum Scale for IBM Elastic Storage Server
Version 5.3.7.2 for ppc64le Architecture
Package Description - Data Access Edition
IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS) Data Access Edition ver
5.3.7.2 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 PTF 8
and Power System Firmware.
1.0 Summary of changes in ESS ver 5.3.7.2 for ppc64le
a) ESS core
- IBM Spectrum Scale V5.0.5 PTF 8
- IBM Spectrum Scale RAID V5.0.5 PTF 8
- Change from all previous versions of ESS
b) Support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
- Change from previous versions of ESS
- See sections 4.4 for further details
- kernel release 3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.ppc64le
c) Support of MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.9-3.1.5.3
- Changes from ESS 5.3.7.1
d) Support for 10GE Ethernet Adapter (Shiner-T) Copper
- Same as ESS 5.3.7.1
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 5.3.7.2
4.1 Manifest
gss_install 5.3.7.2-20210721T161840Z_ppc64le_dataaccess
gpfs.base 5.0.5-8 sha256:a1e61304cd34f706e856c5f128ae60d580a3e55b79f5361a1b2584cedd62018c
gpfs.callhome-ecc-client 5.0.5-8 sha256:37f559dd44396264eeff67fc387ee9edf1163faa1b117bb1bf71dccfc82c32b7
gpfs.compression 5.0.5-8 sha256:b005ec5552e4de9b4ed9ad4acd76346c11f2ccd9b5100cc6a17685bf9dc1e8cc
gpfs.docs 5.0.5-8 sha256:65a17501db226eb973a9fb1f0b214031c5da362de063a0bd5c35c6a6fbfba0fd
gpfs.ess.firmware 6.0.0-9 sha256:7ff8e65caaeaec2cfd2c7509e8c3358191627b48b2c2f244b1287125c6caf5bd
gpfs.gnr 5.0.5-8 sha256:378e8a6836737c2892a200000a917259c8f6c2a9dac055ddf738451ab33d42e8
gpfs.gnr.support-ess3000 1.0.0-3 sha256:ef576c916c4c6e9e9a39f898a1184e57dc9b3f29285a7f354f16359a48895c87
gpfs.gnr.support-ess3200 1.0.0-1 sha256:153b8e4ce9cb8909263c279d8a6a2ad84633a9084bbdad3f6cb1b8bc400e5110
gpfs.gnr.support-ess5000 1.0.0-3 sha256:61ce54789f0c630ff7069a951c613805add80d474da53400c90379a2ce6fac1a
gpfs.gnr.support-essbase 1.0.0-3 sha256:827a990f18695e2d3ffc35bf8491ca12041f9640d3a024ac623c82e572d810f4
gpfs.gpl 5.0.5-8 sha256:8a4e0222b22cb5717c14368b6376d2371eaf188a0eca14026f7bc769dedb142d
gpfs.gskit 8.0.55-12 sha256:9213e76896e425e27e6d478ca0134f0acb85eb66f45a224c8bad3ea5392710b0
gpfs.gss.pmsensors 5.0.5-8.el7 sha256:d31e18890740d9beab46600a442fe93464b7e335faed25092d99743f0f5e4dad
gpfs.java 5.0.5-8 sha256:b3fe09d3fbc0a5a802363b9ab8aedc803a2c26e0722bbb94ebb44b0e0ab75701
gpfs.kafka 5.0.5-8 sha256:e8ea98053091956fe183ca9aa51c80d6120f0e7b317f3e61b14fba4b2b8d1c41
gpfs.librdkafka 5.0.5-8 sha256:eaff8b631698485dcb8be0c6ec4ce9028f1df71aefd153d0b67fa5329fdd5ab7
gpfs.license.ds 5.0.5-8 sha256:0c40f9b7f90a7ab5266359a3d1d809ddc64739b6530829ae5cc129f435e46413
gpfs.msg.en_US 5.0.5-8 sha256:be2dfbc5570b525228379836af424abf1572aa8fcd90eab356bbaf3b6999fb2d
esagent.pLinux 4.5.5-1 sha256:d1304d5a52db4348231ec5f20c3da0eba4600b9ea01e00634436394759686865
gpfs.gss.tools 5.3.7.2-release sha256:f148a59374178bf2a33191b6c0a764157ab4f2eca9fe5d74af551806a7270059
gpfs.gss.xcat 5.3.7.2-release sha256:c5015c9a7f2c53b2e25c1b8c7d3bd91812e3e4e3617142de4dbc0c2a498afc29
kmod-mpt3sas 34.00.00.00-1 sha256:07852427a565d4b7856fa5960c8996c034ee03bc33e7d97e4910f4a3cbbd057d
mofed 4.9-3.1.5.3 sha256:ad38a62f64162759025df7fa8162daa1a65b25885595d1e9ba28060537342af9
perl-xCAT 4:2.16.1-snap202011041655 sha256:a311f26e39c39b122c919c01cc3cf9bb494bdd6f56e57206c45f3b6491ab078d
xCAT 2.16.1-snap202011041655 sha256:39e1390ed52a74854069e2b82eb4e707b353166be3193178e7304a3e7ee24d09
xCAT-buildkit 4:2.16.1-snap202011041655 sha256:4ebd1fdacd6516033f5ed35d8ffe359303d30b42c4c72cf8b4012781ac92cef7
xCAT-client 4:2.16.1-snap202011041655 sha256:db64cb352e88782f6a892e6e04cd646514d7c13afe3fb5ddbe1bccd68d07eb99
xCAT-genesis-scripts-ppc64 1:2.16.1-snap202011041655 sha256:9401c2de4be8ccc0eb4386a2da494f185364a5724ee9a3c2a86692b9835af991
xCAT-genesis-scripts-x86_64 1:2.16.1-snap202011041655 sha256:447d3959bf58308f2c4363bb76e91cab9adc62a9e0ea01e69434cbbe241c1972
xCAT-probe 4:2.16.1-snap202011041655 sha256:996175af59e64c35dcc962196eaf2839e7e684eaa5f77af44d4389630a58f78c
xCAT-server 4:2.16.1-snap202011041655 sha256:46a4cdc22684299055030b5f2afa531a98b997cba9d412392aefa57efab05f19
elilo-xcat 3.14-5 sha256:ff0c1362c56676bb68c35a5caa84627faf8b64001121f8d25ba472db692d9ee9
goconserver 0.3.3-snap202011021041 sha256:1c82d5da40a0dbda61d33053881cbfc393abfaee305dfac0609a9bcc12cc284c
grub2-xcat 2.02-0.76.el7.1.snap201905160255sha256:dea8ba99d831d86f2a79f9eff717bc312ff47cc9a75824fcc12bf7f841333abb
ipmitool-xcat 1.8.18-0 sha256:5e47287e1c2e9e0f33765b860bd0b650e14db4a71c363f089fdee6a72dc5c582
ipmitool-xcat 1.8.18-3 sha256:d74e81488bb0e97c1ba0b8a1febac3986205d41a127f2ccad1553874e42e4b15
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-Stty 0.03-1 sha256:512728569d43f8cd2814492431e7904e47fa533dc2b68a12b66a3adf72632d3d
perl-IO-Tty 1.07-1 sha256:fa7dc7e82fc5db07c5d44d304c4e4070129e25b73ab0851fda0dc769a1a23a4b
perl-JSON 2.50-1.el6.rfx sha256:97c904ab3508b00f5dddb30107fa84cf64999ebe50fc56c7202f3b07b8845e35
perl-Net-HTTPS-NB 0.14-2 sha256:f70c38ccb6b0106c529fdfc756a6304e09c71d7b797c9a92d0499d4cc3fd7686
perl-Net-Telnet 3.03-19.el7 sha256:9ff39b0422a7b1c255b433b3f102311a530d91725dac3379e66c1dc15419bbcc
perl-XML-Simple 2.18-1 sha256:e5228b7dc825da31cfa3d7d8864ef63189daeb0924f9ace24613accce8152fad
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 5.0.5-8.el7 sha256:7947020651b8c5d3c8b490f86b86921c7ec89b0adacde460af4d00332f0c6b62
gpfs.gui 5.0.5-8 sha256:ea59ce37fa917efc026d89a840607364cc77b90ed71470cf2d2fd4804b44c25e
pci.1014034A.51 19512b00-1 sha256:f2f1ce4c3e7270cf65819c03ace07cc9aa87a261998c18e4cf47d0703eeee6d8
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 5.3.7.2 is shipped with OFED level
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.9-3.1.5.3 and it is installed and upgraded as
part of the ESS ver 5.3.7.2 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 Power System S822L ESS ver 5.3.7 - FW860.90 (SV860_226)
ESS ver 5.3.7.1 - FW860.90 (SV860_226)
ESS ver 5.3.7.2 - FW860.A0 (SV860_231_165)
IBM Power System S821L ESS ver 5.3.7 - FW860.90 (SV860_226)
ESS ver 5.3.7.1 - FW860.90 (SV860_226)
ESS ver 5.3.7.2 - FW860.A0 (SV860_231_165)
IBM PCIe x8 Cache SAS ESS ver 5.3.7 - 19512B00
RAID Internal Adapter ESS ver 5.3.7.1 - 19512B00
ESS ver 5.3.7.2 - 19512B00
4.4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Level and update considerations
ESS 5.3.7.2 release is tested with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7.9 with Security Advisory RHEA-2021:2314(kernel),
RHBA-2021:0351(systemd) and RHBA-2020:5025(network manager).
Once errata kernel is applied it should show
kernel release: 3.10.0-1160.31.1.el7.ppc64le
Once errata systemd is applied it should show
systemd release: 219-78.el7_9.3.ppc64le
Once errata network manager is applied it should show
network manager release: 1.18.8-2.el7_9.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 5.3.7.2 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 ESS5.3.7.2_IMAGE
Unless specifically noted otherwise, this history of problems fixed for ESS5.3.7.2_IMAGE applies for all supported platforms.
Problems fixed in ESS5.3.7.2_IMAGE [Jul 23, 2021]
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