Summary of changes

This topic summarizes changes to the 5.1.7 version of the IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition.

The following changes are made in this release:
  • IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition amends the CPU hardware requirements. For more information, see Minimum hardware requirements and precheck.
  • IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition supports splitting DA feature for creation, scale-up, and scale-out of recovery group. For more information, see mmvdisk recoverygroup command in the IBM Spectrum Scale RAID: Administration.
  • IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition supports selecting individual block device for creation, scale-up, and scale-out of recovery group. For more information, see mmvdisk recoverygroup command in the IBM Spectrum Scale RAID: Administration.
  • IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition supports customer defined configurations for ECE server. For more information, see mmvdisk nodeclass command and mmvdisk server command in the IBM Spectrum Scale RAID: Administration.
  • IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition supports configurable eventlog and improved event logging performance.
  • IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition supports improved Failure Domain Calculation method.
  • IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition installation toolkit supports checking fault tolerance during online upgrade.
  • IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition supports constrained VMWare virtual machine through RPQ.