[gpfsug-discuss] DSS-G support period

[Simon Thompson]

3.0 isn't supported on first gen DSS-G servers (x3650m5) so if you have those, you'd hope that it would continue to be supported.

We're just looking to upgrade ours to 3.0 (and no, you don't need to upgrade xcat server to 8.0 for that).

Simon

On 03/08/2020, 12:33, "gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org on behalf of Jonathan Buzzard" <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org on behalf of jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk> wrote:


    I notice that there is now a 3.x version of the DSS-G software that is 
    based on RHEL8, which took me a bit by surprise as the ESS still seems 
    to be on RHEL7.

    I did however notice that 2.6b which is still based on RHEL7 was 
    released after 3.0a.

    So this brings the question how much longer will the 2.x/RHEL7 versions 
    of the DSS-G be supported? The reason being that the 
    installation/upgrade instructions for the 3.x software state that the 
    xCAT server must be running RHEL8, which more or less means a reinstall 
    which is a big task as it's also used to deploy the compute cluster.


    JAB.

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