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IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator 2.3

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Abstract

IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator and IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator Enterprise Edition 2.3 has been made generally available on Passport Advantage.

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Table of Contents
Sections Description

The Change history section provides an overview on what is new in this release with a description of any new functions or enhancements when applicable.

The How critical is this fix section provides information related to the impact of this release to allow you to assess how your environment may be affected.

The Prerequisites section provides important information to review prior to the installation of this release.

The Download package section provides the direct link to obtain the download package for installation in your environment.

The Installation instructions section provides the installation instructions necessary to apply this release into your environment.

The Known side effects section contains a link to the known problems (open defects) identified at the time of this release.

Supporting Documentation
Document Description

Click to review the detailed system requirements information for a complete list of hardware requirements, supported operating systems, prerequisites and optional supported software, with component-level details and operating system restrictions.

IBM Knowledge Center provides an entry point to product documentation. You can view, browse, and search online information related to the product.

Click to review a complete list of the defects (APARs) resolved in this release including a list of resolved defects for the entire version family.

IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator Version 2.3 is an OpenStack based cloud solution. This document will help cloud administrators with:

  • Capacity planning
  • Performance optimization
  • Management best practices to achieve service stability

Click to review the content on the wiki which provides tutorials, demos and other information for IBM Cloud Orchestrator supplementing the IBM Cloud Orchestrator Knowledge Center.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites include:

Review the Software prerequisites page in the IBM Knowledge Center to ensure your environment meets the minimum hypervisor and operating system requirements, especially if you are upgrading from a previous release of IBM Smart Cloud Orchestrator.

Installation Instructions

Review the installation page in the IBM Knowledge Center.

Review the Planning your installation page in the IBM Knowledge Center before you start the installation to review the requirements and plan the whole process.

Download Package

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Access type Description

Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express clients are required to sign in to download the software package.

If you are entitled for IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator and need to download your software from Passport Advantage, perform the following steps:

  1. Logon to Passport Advantage.
  2. Select Software Downloads and Media Access.
  3. Select the Download Finder.
  4. Select Find by description or part number.
  5. Select the Product Description and All radio buttons and enter IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator in the description field.
  6. Select Continue.
  7. Expand the eAssemblies and you will see your entitled software.


Review eAssemblies Parts List document for a list of part numbers you can download for this product.

IBM Software Group OEM offerings are designed for partners who develop and sell business solutions with embedded or bundled IBM middleware software. Clients with Flexible Contract Type (FCT) license purchases and IBM Business Partners must sign in to download the software package.

How critical is this fix?

Impact Assessment
Impact Description

This is a service release. It contains new features as well as fixes for client-reported and internally found defects.

Test Results

Definitions

Regression: An error in the Maintenance Delivery Vehicle (MDV) that produces incorrect or unexpected behavior causing a supported feature to stop functioning as designed.
This includes:

  • Coding errors that cause a regression
  • Documentation or packaging problems that cause a regression
  • Errors reported in a new function delivered in a MDV that cause a regression

Incomplete: An error in the MDV has not regressed, but does not work as designed.
This includes:

  • Fixed APARs which did not solve the original problem but did not break anything new
  • APARs reporting documentation errors, such as readme errors, that cause problems applying an MDV but do not lead to a regression


Notes:
  • Regression and incomplete APARs are considered fix-in-error or MDV-in-error
  • Definitions above apply only to valid APARs that result in product fixes (APARs returned as working-as-designed are not assessed for being fix-in-error)
  • Issues in major releases due to new functionality do not apply in this definition

There are no known regressions to report.

Problems Solved

Defects resolved

Click the Fix List link in the table of contents above to review a list of the problems solved in this release.

Known Side Effects

Review the following list of known issues and open defects:

Review the Known errors and limitations section of the IBM Knowledge Center for issues related to this release.

The following list shows what messages were not translated for the SmartCloud Orchestrator UI (which are not listed in the Knowledge Center):

  • CTJCP0063E: The required backend service is currently not available. Contact your administrator - In case the SmartCloud Orchestrator UI is unable to make a connection to the IaaS Gateway, clicking on the Edit or refresh button in the domain/project/user page will display this error message.
  • CTJCP0064E: You are not authorised to view resources of this type - Non-authorised executing actions related to Users/Domains/Tenants will result in this message being displayed.
  • requestTooltip: "{0}: {1} submitted by {2} on "and taskRequester: "Requested by {0} on " - This message (tooltip) was rearranged because the date is no longer inserted using the {} place holder. The date is now appended to the string. If the translated strings are not updated then they will be formatted incorrectly, or have redundant characters like {0} within the message and the date will be appended.
  • Updated on: - This entry displayed the date and time of the last update to a request.
  • RM07307 Failed to attach additional disk or size ${0} GB to virtual machine ${1} - Any error in the OpenStack detected while adding additional disks will display this new message. It will also be reported when specifying a disk addon which is larger that the Cinder Volume.
  • RM40033 Changes the virtual machine flavor - This label will be displayed when somebody issues the help command of the 'virtualmachine' object 'resize' method in the CLI interface. this label will be shown as a description of the 'resize' action.

Open defects

Review the following list of open defects for IBM Cloud Orchestrator on the IBM Support Portal.

Change History

What's new

For information about the new features and enhancements, review the What is new in this release topic in the IBM Knowledge Center.

Additional information can be reviewed in the IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator V2.3 fully automates cloud service delivery Announcement Letter.

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Modified date:
05 April 2019

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