[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

[Renata Maria Dart]

Thanks very much for your response Carl, this is the information I was looking for.

Renata

On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, Carl Zetie - carlz at us.ibm.com wrote:

>To reiterate what?s been said on this thread, and to reaffirm the official IBM position:
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>  *   Scale 4.2 reaches EOS in September 2020, and RHEL6 not long after. In fact, the reason we have postponed 4.2 EOS for so long is precisely because it is the last Scale release to support RHEL6, and we decided that we should support a version of Scale essentially as long as RHEL6 is supported.
>  *   You can purchase Extended Support for both Scale 4.2 and RHEL6, but (as Jonathan said) you need to look closely at what you are getting from both sides. For Scale, do not expect any fixes after EOS (unless something like a truly critical security issue with no workaround arises).
>  *   There is no possibility of IBM supporting Scale 5.0 on RHEL6. I want to make this as clear as I possibly can so that people can focus on feasible alternatives, rather than lose precious time asking for a change to this plan and waiting on a response that will absolutely, definitely be No.
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>I would like to add: In general, in the future the ?span? of the Scale/RHEL matrix is going to get tighter than it perhaps has been in the past. You should anticipate that broadly speaking, we?re not going to support Scale on out-of-support OS versions; and we?re not going to test out-of-support (or soon-to-be out-of-support) Scale on new OS versions.
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>The impact of this will be mitigated by our introduction of EUS releases, starting with 5.0.5, which will allow you to stay on a Scale release across multiple OS releases; and the combination of Scale EUS and RHEL EUS will allow you to stay on a stable environment for a long time.
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>EUS for Scale is no-charge, it is included as a standard part of your S&S.
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>Regards,
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>Carl Zetie
>Program Director
>Offering Management
>Spectrum Scale & Spectrum Discover
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