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IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator 2.2

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Abstract

IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator and IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator Enterprise Edition 2.2 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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How critical is this fix?

Impact Assessment
Impact Description

Recommended

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

Test Results

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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.

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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 additional issues exists (which are not listed in the Knowledge Center):

  1. On a Windows 7 system, when using Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish or German locale, the output of the CLI help command for IBM Construction and Composition Tool may not be displayed correctly.

  2. In a non-English environment, some of the error messages that contain non-ASCII characters will be displayed in UNICODE.

    As a workaround for this issue you can copy the error message and then run it with the following command:
    echo -e "message text"

    Ensure that the required charset is installed in the operating system.

Open defects

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

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Change History

What's new

Product Overview:

SmartCloud Orchestrator is an open, flexible, and scalable cloud platform enabling end-to-end service deployment and management across heterogeneous clouds. SmartCloud Orchestrator provides complete capabilities to build out your infrastructure and platform services and provides rich process orchestration for integrating within your existing data center and out to public cloud services.

At the core, SmartCloud Orchestrator includes OpenStack for infrastructure-as-a-service capabilities across your compute, network, and storage resources. The release includes platform implementation support for VMware vCenter, KVM, and Amazon EC2. The platform capabilities also include SmartCloud Orchestrator image library, providing federated views of all your images, version management, and image analytics.

Platform capabilities, built on top of OpenStack APIs, include a drag-and-drop pattern editor to define repeatable, standardized deployments of your middleware and application workloads. The editor supports defining multi-VM patterns with dynamic construction using Chef recipes, script packages, and parameter passing. A TOSCA pattern is included to import, export, customize and deploy applications using the TOSCA standard from OASIS.

SmartCloud Orchestrator includes process orchestration for a consistent, flexible, and automated way of integrating the cloud with your data center policies, processes, and infrastructures across various IT domains, such as backup, monitoring, and security. You can use the intuitive, graphical tool in SmartCloud Orchestrator to define and implement business rules and IT policies and offer these services in the self-service catalog.

An online marketplace provides a rich set of content, including pre-built middleware and application patterns from IBM and other vendors. There are also many content building blocks for constructing your own patterns and orchestrations including data center integrations for network load balancers, firewalls, storage, and problem management services.

For information about the main features that are available with IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator version 2.2, review the Product features topic in the IBM Knowledge Center.

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Modified date:
05 April 2019

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