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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Pam,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dan raises a good point. If we’re talking Lustre 2.x, then servers will only run on RHEL and its derivatives. But many of us are running Lustre 1.8.x on SLES and do not have the option of moving to RHEL without changing the hardware platform on which the servers are running. Is the support working group considering support for Lustre 1.8.x?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>--jc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Dan Ferber [mailto:dferber@whamcloud.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 07, 2010 9:56 AM<br><b>To:</b> John Carrier; Hamilton, Pam<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Swg] OpenSFS Support Working Group draft white paper - Round 2<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I agree SLES (and RH) need to be added for clients. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I know Oracle's support policy (for their current but not new customers and partners – and for 1.8 and not 2.0) is online, and here is Whamcloud's support plans, just as another datapoint:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Support+Matrix">http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Support+Matrix</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><img border=0 width=1048 height=666 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01CB95FC.69DA4300"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><img border=0 width=123 height=50 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.png@01CB95FC.69DA4300"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>Dan Ferber</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'><br><span class=apple-style-span>Customer Service and Business Development Manager</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>Office: +1 651-344-1846</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>Cell: +1 651-344-1846</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>Email: <a href="dferber@whamcloud.com">dferber@whamcloud.com</a></span></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>John Carrier <<a href="mailto:carrier@cray.com">carrier@cray.com</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:46:06 -0600<br><b>To: </b>"Hamilton, Pam" <<a href="mailto:hamilton5@llnl.gov">hamilton5@llnl.gov</a>><br><b>Cc: </b>"<a href="mailto:comswg@lists.opensfs.org">comswg@lists.opensfs.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:comswg@lists.opensfs.org">comswg@lists.opensfs.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:Execs@lists.opensfs.org">Execs@lists.opensfs.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:Execs@lists.opensfs.org">Execs@lists.opensfs.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:swg@lists.opensfs.org">swg@lists.opensfs.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:swg@lists.opensfs.org">swg@lists.opensfs.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:twg@lists.opensfs.org">twg@lists.opensfs.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:twg@lists.opensfs.org">twg@lists.opensfs.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:rpwg@lists.opensfs.org">rpwg@lists.opensfs.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:rpwg@lists.opensfs.org">rpwg@lists.opensfs.org</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Swg] OpenSFS Support Working Group draft white paper - Round 2<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #B5C4DF 4.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-right:0in' id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE"><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Pam,</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Your description of release mentions Redhat only. I think this is appropriate for the servers, but many members are using other distributions on their cluster nodes. What are the support plans for the Lustre clients for the OpenSFS distribution?</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Oracle has stated that their Linux support is for OEL and other RHEL derivatives. Clients will continue to be supported on all current distributions (SLES, RHEL, etc).</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks,</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>--jc</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:twg-bounces@lists.opensfs.org">twg-bounces@lists.opensfs.org</a> [<a href="mailto:twg-bounces@lists.opensfs.org">mailto:twg-bounces@lists.opensfs.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Hamilton, Pam<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 06, 2010 8:31 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Execs@lists.opensfs.org">Execs@lists.opensfs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:twg@lists.opensfs.org">twg@lists.opensfs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:rpwg@lists.opensfs.org">rpwg@lists.opensfs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:swg@lists.opensfs.org">swg@lists.opensfs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:comswg@lists.opensfs.org">comswg@lists.opensfs.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Twg] OpenSFS Support Working Group draft white paper - Round 2</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Attached is another draft of the OpenSFS Support Working Group white paper. During support model discussions, the SWG felt we were lacking a good understanding of the high level requirements for OpenSFS and any release distributed by the organization. Without this understanding, we are struggling with developing the support model. Therefore, this draft of includes a section with what we see as high level requirements for OpenSFS. I’m sending to the execs and other working groups to get a discussion started and hopefully we can reach a consensus regarding the requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Pam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>___________________________________<br>Pam Hamilton<br>Lawrence Livermore National Lab <br>P.O. Box 808, L-556<br>Livermore, CA 94551-9900<br>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:pgh@llnl.gov">pgh@llnl.gov</a><br>Phone: 925-423-1332 Fax: 925-423-8719<br>___________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>_______________________________________________ swg mailing list <a href="mailto:swg@lists.opensfs.org">swg@lists.opensfs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.opensfs.org/listinfo.cgi/swg-opensfs.org">http://lists.opensfs.org/listinfo.cgi/swg-opensfs.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></body></html>