Summary of changes

This topic summarizes the changes to the IBM Spectrum Scale AWS Marketplace offering support section.

Summary of changes for IBM
Spectrum Scale AWS Marketplace offering version 1.3.1.1
as updated on April 2021
This release of the AWS Marketplace offering includes the following improvements. All improvements are available after an upgrade, unless otherwise specified.
Changes in procedure to upgrade to IBM Spectrum Scale version 5.1.1
Changes are made to the procedure to upgrade to IBM Spectrum Scale version 5.1.1. For more information, see Upgrading IBM Spectrum Scale
Summary of changes for IBM
Spectrum Scale AWS Marketplace offering version 1.3.1
as updated on October 2020
This release of the AWS Marketplace offering includes the following improvements. All improvements are available after an upgrade, unless otherwise specified.
Changes in Operating System support
Customers have the ability to choose from any of the following supported operating systems:
  • RHEL 7.7
  • RHEL 7.8
  • RHEL 8.1
  • RHEL 8.2
Changes in features
Customers can install IBM Spectrum Scale on a customer built AMI.
Customers can install and configure IBM Spectrum Scale GUI.
IBM Spectrum Scale version 5.0.5.3 is supported for AWS 1.3.1
Dedicated controller node for IBM Spectrum® Scale cluster deployment and cluster lifecycle management.
The mmaws utilityis replaced with the mmcloudworkflows utility.
Documentation updates
The titles of the following sections have changed:
Table 1.
Old Title New Title
Cluster lifecycle management and debug data collection Cluster lifecycle management
Collecting AWS-specific debug data Collecting debug data in the event of initial deployment failure
Diagnosing deployment failures Diagnosing and cleaning-up deployment failures
Collecting debug data if initial deployment fails Collecting debug data
Summary of changes
for IBM
Spectrum Scale AWS Marketplace offering version 1.2.0
as updated on June 2019
This release of the AWS Marketplace offering includes the following improvements. All improvements are available after an upgrade, unless otherwise specified.
Changes in Operating System
Upgraded to RHEL 7.6.
Changes in features
Added manual AFM setup and support.
Fixes in features
Fixed entitlement check issue.
Documentation updates
Added documentation for AFM support.
Minor change in lambda function usage.
Summary of changes
for AWS Marketplace offering version 1.1.0
as updated on January 2019
This release of the AWS Marketplace offering includes the following improvements. All improvements are available after an upgrade, unless otherwise specified.
Changes in Operating System
Upgraded to RHEL 7.5.
Changes in features
Added entitlement checks.
Fixes in features
Upgrade of IBM Spectrum Scale made available locally through IBM Spectrum Scale install toolkit.
Documentation updates
Added documentation for IBM Spectrum Scale upgrade.