[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS / Spectrum Scale support with x86 SUSE SLES 12 SP2 to be expected when?

Aaron Knister aaron.s.knister at nasa.gov
Wed Mar 29 15:17:19 BST 2017


Ah, good point. Support means different things to different people, I 
suppose. The FAQ does say this which I'd not seen before:

"IBM Spectrum Scale is not supported on SLES 12 SP2"

That's actually a problem for me so I second Christoph's question, then.

-Aaron

On 3/29/17 10:01 AM, Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services) 
wrote:
> I think the question was supported, not works though.
>
> We've just been round something similar with TSM support, works fine on el7.3, but not supported, the docs actually said 7.1 or higher. We still got support and IBM now officially support 7.3, but I can see people may not want to deploy on something unsupported.
>
> Simon
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> Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS / Spectrum Scale support with x86 SUSE SLES 12 SP2 to be expected when?
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> Just to make sure I wasn't mis-remembering I just installed 4.1.1.10 on
> a SLES12 SP1 machine (it has a SLES12 SP2 kernel though), built and
> loaded the kernel modules. There could be something significantly
> different in user space between SLES12 SP1 and SP2 that prevents RPM
> installation but I'd be surprised.
>
> -Aaron
>
> On 3/29/17 9:18 AM, Aaron Knister wrote:
>> I could be wrong but I believe it is currently supported (as in it
>> works, at least that's my recollection). Did you try with a particular
>> version that wouldn't work?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 29, 2017, at 07:34, Christoph Krafft <ckrafft at de.ibm.com
>> <mailto:ckrafft at de.ibm.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> does anyone have any tentative information when the above SUSE OS
>>> Level will be supported?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance for hints and tips!
>>>
>>>
>>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Sincerely
>>>
>>> *Christoph Krafft*
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