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This information is intended for administrators of IBM Elastic Storage
®
System (ESS) that includes IBM
Spectrum Scale RAID.
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Related information
Related information
For information about:
• IBM Spectrum Scale, see IBM Documentation.
• mmvdisk command, see mmvdisk documentation.
• Mellanox OFED (MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.9-5.1.0.2) Release Notes, go to https://docs.nvidia.com/
networking/display/MLNXOFEDv494170/MLNX_OFED+Documentation+Rev+4.9-4.1.7.0+LTS.
• Mellanox OFED (MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.1) Release Notes, go to https://docs.nvidia.com/
networking/spaces/viewspace.action?key=MLNXOFEDv571020. (The Mellanox OFED 5.7.x is shipped
with ESS 6.1.5.)
• IBM Elastic Storage System, see IBM Documentation.
• IBM Spectrum Scale call home, see Understanding call home.
• Installing IBM Spectrum Scale and CES protocols with the installation toolkit, see Installing IBM
Spectrum Scale on Linux
®
nodes with the installation toolkit.
• Detailed information about the IBM Spectrum Scale installation toolkit, see Using the installation toolkit
to perform installation tasks: Explanations and examples.
• CES HDFS, see Adding CES HDFS nodes into the centralized le system.
• Installation toolkit ESS support, see ESS awareness with the installation toolkit.
• IBM POWER8
®
servers, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power-sys-solutions/0008-ESS?
topic=P8ESS/p8hdx/5148_22l_landing.htm.
• IBM POWER9
™
servers, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ess/6.1.2_ent?topic=guide-5105-22e-
reference-information.
For the latest support information about IBM Spectrum Scale RAID, see the IBM Spectrum Scale RAID
FAQ in IBM Documentation.
Conventions used in this information
Table 1 on page x describes the typographic conventions used in this information. UNIX le name
conventions are used throughout this information.
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