• Prerequisites

  You must have a licensed version of IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 or higher installed.

• Problems discovered in IBM Spectrum Scale releases

  None.

• Downloading Images

  Choose the download option "Download using Download Director" to download the new Spectrum Scale package and place it in any location desired on the install node.
  Note, if you must (not recommended) use download option "Download using your browser (HTTPS)", instead of clicking on the down arrow to the left of the package name, you must right-click on the package name and select the Save Link As.. option. If you just click on the download arrow, the browser will likely hang.

• Installing IBM Spectrum Scale for AIX

  After you have downloaded IBM Spectrum Scale for AIX package into any directory on your system, use the following section to install the package.

  Complete these steps to install the fix package:

  1. Unzip and extract the image(s) from the file that was just downloaded:
     gzip -d -c < filename > | tar -xvf -
  
  
  2. Verify the image(s) in the directory.
     
     Normally, the images in the directory would be similar to the following:
     • UXXXXXX.gpfs.base.bff
     • UXXXXXX.gpfs.docs.data.bff
     • UXXXXXX.gpfs.gskit.bff
     • UXXXXXX.gpfs.msg.en_US.bff
     • UXXXXXX.gpfs.compression.bff
     • UXXXXXX.gpfs.adv.bff (IBM Spectrum Scale Advanced or Data Management Edition only)
     • UXXXXXX.gpfs.crypto.bff (IBM Spectrum Scale Advanced or Data Management Edition only)
     
     where XXXXXX represents the six (6) digits of the PTF number for the BFF image.For specific filenames, check "Package information" in this Readme for the IBM Spectrum Scale update.
  
  
  3. Follow the installation instructions in your IBM Spectrum Scale Installing and upgrading.

• Upgrading GPFS nodes

  In the below instructions, node-by-node upgrade cannot be used to migrate from GPFS 4.1 or prior releases. For example, upgrading from 4.1.1.16 to 5.1.0.2 requires complete cluster shutdown, upgrade install on all nodes and then cluster startup.

  Upgrading GPFS may be accomplished by either upgrading one node in the cluster at a time or by upgrading all nodes in the cluster at once. When upgrading GPFS one node at a time, the below steps are performed on each node in the cluster in a sequential manner. When upgrading the entire cluster at once, GPFS must be shutdown on all nodes in the cluster prior to upgrading.

  When upgrading nodes one at a time, you may need to plan the order of nodes to upgrade. Verify that stopping each particular machine does not cause quorum to be lost or that an NSD server might be the last server for some disks. Upgrade the quorum and manager nodes first. When upgrading the quorum nodes, upgrade the cluster manager last to avoid unnecessary cluster failover and election of new cluster managers.

  1. Prior to upgrading GPFS on a node, all applications that depend on GPFS (e.g. DB2) must be stopped. Any GPFS file systems that are NFS exported must be unexported prior to unmounting GPFS file systems.
  2. Stop GPFS on the node. Verify that the GPFS daemon has terminated and that the kernel extensions have been unloaded (mmfsenv -u). If the command mmfsenv -u reports that it cannot unload the kernel extensions because they are "busy", then the install can proceed, but the node must be rebooted after the install. By "busy" this means that some process has a "current directory" in some GPFS filesystem directory or has an open file descriptor. The freeware program lsof can identify the process and the process can then be killed. Retry mmfsenv -u and if that succeeds then a reboot of the node can be avoided.
  3. For upgrade instructions refer to:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_5.1.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r10.doc/bl1ins_migratl.htm

• Notices

Update to Version:

Update from Version:

Update (tar file) contents:

• Package information

  The update images listed below and contained in the tar image are maintenance packages for IBM Spectrum Scale. The update images can be directly applied to your system.

  The update images require a prior level of IBM Spectrum Scale. Thus, the usefulness of this update is limited to installations that already have the IBM Spectrum Scale product. Contact your IBM representative if you desire to purchase a fully installable product that does not require a prior level of IBM Spectrum Scale.

  After all BFFs are installed, you have successfully updated your IBM Spectrum Scale product.

• Follow the installation and migration instructions in your IBM Spectrum Scale Installing and upgrading.
  • U888800.gpfs.base.bff
  • U8888799gpfs.docs.data.bff
  • U888801.gpfs.msg.en_US.bff
  • U888802.gpfs.adv.bff (IBM Spectrum Scale Advanced or Data Management Edition only)
  • U889110.gpfs.crypto.bff (IBM Spectrum Scale Advanced or Data Management Edition only)

• Summary of changes for IBM Spectrum Scale

  Unless specifically noted otherwise, this history of problems fixed for IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.x appliesfor all supported platforms.

  Problems fixed in IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.0.2 [January 28, 2021]

  • IBM Spectrum Scale APARs