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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 15, 2018

Protocols SMB online update support

With Spectrum Scale Protocols 5.0, SMB Update node by node should be possible online without downtime/business impact.
Actually this is not possible.
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IBM Knowledge Center - SMB limitations:

The SMB service needs to be stopped on all CES nodes for the upgrade to ensure that the same SMB software level is used on all CES nodes.
This limitation is referenced here:

https://ibm.biz/BdYpjp

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Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Technical Foundation

  • Guest
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    Nov 19, 2018

    Fixing this problem would require substantial modifications to the architecture of Samba, and that is not the roadmap for 2019.

  • Guest
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    Nov 19, 2018

    Very Important

  • Guest
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    Nov 19, 2018

    Very Important

  • Guest
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    Nov 19, 2018

    Important

  • Guest
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    Nov 19, 2018

    We need it!

  • Guest
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    Nov 16, 2018

    Probably this its request goes into the same direction as https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=117919
    Please vote there as well

  • Guest
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    Nov 16, 2018

    Probably this its request goes into the same direction as https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=117919
    Please vote there as well