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IBM Image Services introduces support for ECS 3.0, the new Dell EMC technology

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Abstract

ECS 3.0 Dell EMC device is fully qualified with Image Services 4.1.2 and 4.2.0 on all supported platforms. You can migrate from Dell EMC Centera devices to Dell EMC ECS.

Content

Dell EMC is phasing out Centera storage devices and replacing them with the new generation Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) devices. ECS supports the Centera API which is used by Image Services Integral Single Document Storage (ISDS). ECS 3.0 supports event based retention (EBR), ligation hold and chronological retention which includes the ability to set and extend retention.


This announcement allows Image Services customers to use the new Dell EMC technology ECS.

The ECS 3.0 Dell EMC device has been fully qualified with Image Services 4.1.2 and 4.2.0 on all supported platforms. It is possible to migrate from Dell EMC Centera devices to Dell EMC ECS. From an Image Services Integral SDS customer perspective, the ECS device will operate exactly as the Centera hardware device. ECS 2.2 does not support event based retention (EBR), and ligation hold whereas ECS 3.0 supports these two Advanced Retention Management (ARM) features.


Requirements

  • IS 4.1.2 FP 24 and Interim fix (is_4.1.2.24_ OSNAME-IF544789)
  • IS 4.2.0 FP 13 and Interim fix (is_4.2.0.13_ OSNAME-IF544789)
Interim Fix needs to be applied to fully qualify ECS on above two versions of Image services.

Supported configuration
Centera API SDK 3.2.705 and up is supported.

Deployment
Procedure for configuring ECS is identical to the configuration for a Centera using the SDSw_centera connector library. Refer to Integral SDS user guide for more details about configuring Centera storage device for respective release.
To verify that ECS has been correctly configured as an Integral SDS device via fn_edit, refer to the example elog entry below generated when Image Services is started:

Dynamic Connector library: 'SDSw_centera'
Device specific info: 'ECS (version 3-0000-0-0) libSDSw Ver=1.0,
Mode=ce, SDK v3.2.705 (Dec 12 2016 17:57:00)'
Capacity: 490.000000GB (513802240KB)
Used: 83.624921GB (87687085KB) (17.07%)
Free: 406.375079GB (426115155KB) (82.93%)
Supports EBR=YES holds=YES retention_extend=YES

Here,
ECS version 3-0000 means ECS 3.0.
EBR=YES means event based retention (EBR) is supported.
holds=YES means ligation hold is supported.

Known Issues
No known issues

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

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