Software requirements for Cloud services
You must meet certain software requirements to be able to install and use Cloud services on the IBM Storage Scale cluster.
Note: Cloud services are shipped along with IBM Storage Scale Advanced Edition,
IBM Storage Scale Data Management Edition, or IBM Storage Scale Developer Edition or
IBM Storage Scale Erasure Code Edition. Therefore, IBM Storage Scale Advanced Edition,
IBM Storage Scale Data Management Edition, or IBM Storage Scale Developer Edition or
IBM Storage Scale Erasure Code Edition is required for the
installation.
The software requirements for Cloud services are
- For the complete list of OS support, see Table 1.
- For Kernel versions, see IBM Storage Scale FAQ in IBM® Documentation.
- The following packages must be installed on the Transparent cloud
tiering core server nodes:
- Redhat-release-server
- Unzip
- Tar
- bc - An arbitrary precision calculator language
- SQLite 3.7 and above
- GPFS base RPMs
- GPFS RPMs required for a CES node
- GPFS Advanced Edition RPMs
- For bulk delete functionality to work in Swift, verify that the Bulk
middleware to be in pipeline, as
follows:
vim /etc/swift/proxy-server.conf [pipeline:main] pipeline = healthcheck cache bulk authtoken keystone proxy-server - To run client-assist, clients need all the packages listed for server nodes except SQLite.
| OS | TCT server | TCT client |
|---|---|---|
| RHEL 7.1 (x86) | yes | yes |
| RHEL 7.2 (x86) | yes | yes |
| RHEL 7.3 (x86) | yes | yes |
| RHEL 7.4 (x86) | yes | yes |
| RHEL 7.5 (x86) | yes | yes |
| RHEL 7.1 (Power8 and Power9 LE) | yes | yes |
| RHEL 7.2 (Power8 and Power9 LE) | yes | yes |
| RHEL 7.3 (Power8 and Power9 LE) | yes | yes |
| RHEL 7.4 (Power8 and Power9 LE) | yes | yes |
| RHEL 7.5 (Power8 and Power9 LE) | yes | yes |
| RHEL 8.0 (Power8 and Power9 LE) | yes | yes |
| RHEL 7.5 (s390x) | yes | yes |
| SLES 11.2 | no | yes |
| SLES 12.0 | no | yes |
| SLES12 SP3 (s390x) | no | yes |
| Ubuntu 14.x and 16.4 | no | yes |
| Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 (s390x) | no | yes |
For the latest support matrix, see Transparent cloud tiering questions in IBM Spectrum® Scale FAQ.