[gpfsug-discuss] [External] Re: DSS-G V5 and GUI

[Nicolas CALIMET]

Hello,

The DSS-G 5.0c release mostly brings back the GUI that was not supported in 5.0a and 5.0b as there were problems we had to work out with IBM (and that we eventually resolved ourselves).

The GUI-related RPMs shipping with the prior 5.0a and 5.0b releases were kept around in case someone needs them (which seems to be indeed a likely scenario given this thread) but were not supported in the context of deploying a GUI node for DSS-G. Therefore only the GUI documentation was removed in these releases, and is now back again in DSS-G 5.0c.

Bottom line - installations already running with DSS-G 5.0b (and 5.0a) do not need upgrading. DSS-G 5.0b and 5.0c are running the same software and firmware levels and can coexist without issue. The release notes for DSS-G 5.0c<https://hpc.lenovo.com/dssg/DSS-G-5.0c.Release_Notes.txt> are pretty short actually:

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DSS-G 5.0c
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Released 2024-08-06

This DSS-G release supports gen2 to gen4 DSS servers (Lenovo ThinkSystem SR6x0 / SR6x0 V2 / SR655 V3) only.
Deployment is supported with a Confluent management server only.

This release brings back support for the Storage Scale GUI for DSS-G2xy configurations deployed with DSS-G release 5.0 only.

Updates and fixes
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- DSS-G code and documentation
  * Added back and revisited the DSS-G GUI documentation
  * GUI: restored deployment of GUI nodes with dssg-gui-install via the Confluent management server
  * GUI: added support for SR655 V3 servers and D4390 external enclosures
  * onecli.sh: added timeout to work around occasional hangs when checking UEFI settings at bootup
  * [DSS-G2xy] drive firmware: added LENOVO (vs LENOVO-X) references in firmwareTable.drive for D4390 enclosures


The one thing that could be useful to deployments with DSS-G 5.0b is the update to the onecli.sh wrapper. If needed, the script can be copied from the 5.0c tarball into /opt/lenovo/dss/bin/ on those DSS nodes deployed with 5.0b.

HTH

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Does anyone from Lenovo read this list that can comment on whether or not there's therefore an upgrade path from 5.0b to 5.0c? If they're running all of the same stuff, pretty much, it would be nice not to have to run two slightly different systems for obvious reasons.

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On Aug 14, 2024, at 03:47, Talamo Ivano Giuseppe <ivano.talamo at psi.ch<mailto:ivano.talamo at psi.ch>> wrote:

Same confusion here.
Since last week there's the 5.0c. At a quick check same RPMs, OFED... but finally a PDF for the installation of the GUI, that in the 5.0b doc was mentioned but not present.
Though the installation of the GUI is via confluent, and I'm not a big fan of it

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Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] DSS-G V5 and GUI


So I skipped the v5.0a release because that only supported the new V3
SR650's. However I have finished the "get off CentOS 7" project (apart
from the one server that is now on TuxCare ELS awaiting Ubuntu 24.04
support in GPFS) and so now have the time to look into v5.0b which does
support the older V1 and V2 SR650's.

However in the release notes I read this

  The Storage Scale GUI is not supported with DSS-G 5.0.

Now while I could not care less about the GUI per se, you need it for
the RestAPI which I really *do* care about.

Please tell me that Lenovo have not just yanked this. I do notice that
there are still RPM's for it but really what on earth is going on?


JAB.

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