Linux x86 requirements: IBM Storage Protect for Space Management

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IBM Storage Protect™ for Space Management (HSM) requirements for Linux x86

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Release 8.1
End of Support (EOS) releases

Note: IBM Storage Protect for Space Management support for third-party operating systems, applications, services, and hardware depend on the respective vendor. If a third-party product or version moves into extended support, self-service support, or end-of-life, IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management supports the product or version at the same level as the vendor. See also IBM Support General Guidelines and Limitations - IBM support for software on unsupported operating systems

Release 8.1

Note: The product now known as IBM Storage Protect was named IBM Spectrum Protect in levels earlier than 8.1.19. To learn more about the brand change, see IBM Spectrum brand change to IBM Storage.

Attention: To run the IBM Storage Protect for Space Management client, the IBM Storage Protect backup-archive client is required.
Thus you must follow the support statements listed in the web page Linux x86_64 Client Requirements before you verify the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management support statements.


Hardware
System	Systems based on the X86 64bit processor architecture such as Intel-64 or AMD64
Disk space	1500 MB disk space required to install the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management client binary files. In each IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management managed file system 1 GB free disk space if the dsmscout daemon is used extra disk space is required: 1 KB times the value specified for the "maxfiles" option of the "dsmmigfs add" or "dsmmigfs update" command
Memory	No extra Random-Access Memory (RAM) is required for product installation. RAM requirements for running the product vary widely and depend on your environment, configuration, and tasks that you run. More RAM might be required to run the product.
Software
Communication protocol	One of the following: TCP/IP, which comes standard with Linux Shared Memory Protocol (with Linux x86 server only)
Operating system	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP1 to 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 to 15 SP5 (Support on SLES 15 beginning with 8.1.6) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.1.0 to 7.9.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.0.0 to 8.9.x (Support on RHEL 8.0 beginning with 8.1.9) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.0.0 to 9.3.x (Support on RHEL 9.0 beginning with 8.1.17) Note: When IBM Storage Scale is run on RHEL 9.x, and the cp (copy) command is used, the copied file will be incomplete, though the command returns successfully. For more information see Potential undetected data loss or undetected data corruption in IBM Storage Scale when executing the Linux cp command on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.x.
File system	IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.1.0 or later 4.2.1.x fix pack levels IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.2.0 or later 4.2.2.x fix pack levels IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.3.0 or later 4.2.3.x fix pack levels(1) (Beginning with 8.1.2) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.0.0 or later 5.0.0.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.4) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.1.0 or later 5.0.1.x fix pack levels and IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.2.0 or later 5.0.2.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.6) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.3.0 or later 5.0.3.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.7) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.4.0 or later 5.0.4.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.8) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.5.0 or later 5.0.5.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.9)⁽³⁾ IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 or later 5.1.0.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.10)⁽²⁾⁽³⁾ IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.1 or later 5.1.1.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.12) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.2.1 or later 5.1.2.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.13) Note: this file system level is supported only by SLES 15.3 or later and RHEL 8.4 or later IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.3 or later 5.1.3.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.15) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.4 or later 5.1.4.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.15) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.5 or later 5.1.5.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.15) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.6 or later 5.1.6.x fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.17) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.7 or later fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.19) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.8 or later fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.19) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.9 or later fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.21) IBM Spectrum Scale 5.2.0 or later fix pack levels (Beginning with 8.1.22) Note: the supported file system and SLES and RHEL operating system combinations are listed in the Linux x86_64 Client Requirements.
Other Notes
For the installation of IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client and IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management client, the same (matching) release level is required.
The support for IBM Spectrum Scale is always added in addition to the versions, which are already supported. Note that the certification was done with the most current IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Protect.
On a IBM Spectrum Scale cluster with AIX, Linux x86, Linux on IBM Power Systems Little Endian, or Linux on IBM Z nodes, use the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management client only on one of these platforms to manage a shared file system. Do not use the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management client on different platforms to manage a file system shared among these platforms.
⁽¹⁾IBM Spectrum Scale - Scale Out Backup and Restore (SOBAR) and AFM are supported. However, on IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.3 you need at least IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.3.5.
⁽²⁾The function mmbackup in the IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.4 or earlier does not work in combination with the IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client 8.1.10. For IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.4, see APAR IJ22017, for IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.3 see APAR IJ22035.
⁽³⁾ If you run IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client 8.1.9 or 8.1.10 and you use dsmc to run backup, upgrade to 8.1.11 before you upgrade to IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.5.x or 5.1.0.x or higher levels. For more information, see Upgrade to IBM Spectrum Protect backup-archive client 8.1.11 before you upgrade to IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0.5 or later.
The following IBM Spectrum Scale product editions support the IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management client: IBM Spectrum Scale product editions

End of Support (EOS) releases

Release 7.1 is past End of Support (EOS). See for Client 7.1:
- EOS page: IBM Spectrum Protect and Tivoli Storage Manager 7.1 products End of Support 31 December 2021
- Requirements web page: IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management release 7.1 requirements, which is past End-of-Support (EOS)

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