Changing Express Edition to Standard Edition

Starting with release 4.2.3, IBM Storage Scale Express Edition is no longer available. Use this information for migrating from IBM Storage Scale Express Edition 4.2.2.x or earlier to IBM Storage Scale Standard Edition 4.2.3.x or later.

Before you begin, extract the IBM Storage Scale software as described in the Extracting the IBM Storage Scale software on Linux nodes topic. For more information about the location of extracted installation images, see Location of extracted packages.

Use one of the following sets of steps depending on the operating system and the IBM Storage Scale version.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux® and SLES

  • To migrate from 4.1.1.x or 4.2.0.x or 4.2.1.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition or later on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SLES, update the existing RPMs and install new RPMs by issuing this command.
    rpm -Uvh gpfs*rpm
  • To migrate from 4.2.2.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition or later on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SLES, use these steps.
    1. Uninstall the Express Edition license RPM by issuing the following command.
      rpm -e gpfs.license.exp*.rpm
      
    2. Update the existing RPMs and install new RPMs by issuing the following command.
      rpm -Uvh gpfs*rpm
      rpm -ivh gpfs.compression*.rpm
      rpm -ivh gpfs.license.std*.rpm

Debian and Ubuntu

  • To migrate from 4.1.1.x or 4.2.0.x or 4.2.1.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition or later on Debian and Ubuntu, update the existing packages and install new packages by issuing the following command.
    dpkg -i gpfs*deb
  • To migrate from 4.2.2.x Express Edition to the 4.2.3 Standard Edition or later on Debian and Ubuntu, use these steps.
    1. Uninstall the Express Edition license package by issuing the following command.
      dpkg -r gpfs.license.exp*deb
      
    2. Update the existing packages and install new packages by issuing the following command.
      dpkg -i gpfs*deb
      

AIX®

  • Depending on whether you want to be able to revert to the previous version without reinstalling or uninstalling or not, do one of the following sets of steps.
    • If you want to be able to revert to previous version without reinstalling or uninstalling, do one of the following sets of steps:
      • To migrate from 4.2.0.x or 4.2.1.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition or later on AIX, use these steps.
        1. Update existing packages to 4.2.3 level or a later version by using the PTF images on FixCentral.
        2. Install additional packages from CD images.
      • To migrate from 4.2.2.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition on AIX, use these steps.
        1. Update existing packages to 4.2.3 level or a later version by using the PTF images on FixCentral.
        2. Install more packages from CD images.
        3. After a successful update, uninstall the gpfs.license.exp package.
      To revert to the previous version, do the following steps:
      1. Uninstall all additional packages installed from CD images.
      2. Reject the PTF images.
      3. If you are reverting to 4.2.2.x and you had uninstalled the gpfs.license.exp package for migrating to Standard Edition, install the gpfs.license.exp package.
    • If you can reinstall or uninstall to revert to the previous version, do one of the following sets of steps:
      • To migrate from 4.2.0.x or 4.2.1.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition or later on AIX, install 4.2.3 packages from CD images.
      • To migrate from 4.2.2.x Express Edition to 4.2.3 Standard Edition or later on AIX, use these steps.
        1. Install 4.2.3 or a later version packages from CD images.
        2. After a successful update, uninstall the gpfs.license.exp package.

Windows

  • To migrate from 4.2.2.x or earlier Express Edition to Standard Edition 4.2.3 or later on Windows, use these steps.
    1. Uninstall the current IBM Storage Scale packages (For example, gpfs.base-4.x.x.0-Windows.msi, gpfs.gskit-8.0.x.x.msi, and gpfs.x.license.msi).
    2. Restart the system.
    3. Install gpfs.ext-4.x.x.-Windows-license.msi, gpfs.ext-4.x.x.0-Windows.msi, and gpfs.gskit-8.0.x.x.msi packages.