IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition 4.2.1 Fix 404579 Readme File

Abstract

Apply this fix to add Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2 ppc64le support to Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition 4.2.1.

Description

Readme documentation for IBM® Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition 4.2.1 Fix 404579, including installation-related instructions and prerequisites.

Apply this fix to add additional operating system support to your IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition 4.2.1 environment, including: RHEL 7.1 ppc64 support on the management node, and RHEL 7.2 ppc64le (PowerVM) support on compute nodes.

By applying Fix 404579, compute nodes can be provisioned with an image profile that uses a RHEL 7.2 ppc64le OS distribution.

Readme file for: IBM® Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition
Product/Component release: 4.2.1
Update name: Fix 404579
Fix ID: pcm-4.2.1-build404579
Publication date: 11 May 2016
Last modification date: 11May 2016

Contents

1. List of fixes
2. Download location
3. Products or components affected
4. System requirements
5. Installation and configuration
6. List of files
7. Limitation
8. Copyright and trademark information

1. List of fixes

Add a below cross-arch support for Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition 4.2.1:

Provisioning RHEL 7.2 ppc64le compute node on RHEL 7.1 ppc64be management node.

2. Download location

Fix 404579 can be downloaded from IBM Fix Central at http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral.

3. Products or components affected

Fix 404579 affects the following versions of Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition:

4.2.1.

4. System requirements

5. Installation and configuration

Applying this fix involves the following steps:

5.1 Download the "pcm-4.2.1-build404579" fix package from IBM Fix Central.

5.2 Upload the fix tar file to the Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition management node.

5.3 On the Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition management node, extract the fix tar file.

5.4 Install the fix.

1. Create a backup of the files affected by this fix.

2. Then, run the following command to replace the discinfo.pm.

3. If high availability is enabled, run the following command on the standby management node. Otherwise, omit this step.

5.5 Enable cross-architecture provision environment.

1. Download the Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition 4.2.1 ppc64le ISO package on the management node.

2. Run the pcm-crossdistro-tool command to enable cross-distribution provisioning.

5.6 Add the RHEL 7.2 ppc64le operating system to Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition as an OS distribution, see Adding an OS distribution. 

5.7 Configure and add the CEC, see Configure and add Power Systems CEC.

5.8 Adding nodes using a node information file.  Make sure specify a node information file, a RHEL 7.2 ppc64le image profile, and the IBM_System_p_CEC hardware profile. The node information file must include:  MAC address, CEC and LPAR ID. For example:

ppcpcm02:
        mac=b2:a1:9f:fc:12:1f
        cec=Server-8284-22A-SN2184E7V
        lparid=9

6. List of files

discinfo.pm

7. Limitation

 None.

8. Copyright and trademark information

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