perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Mark Feit <>]

(Sorry for the late reply; I’ve been under the weather lately.)

 

Rivero, Victor writes:

 

Let me tell you that I contacted server vendor and it looks like is probably that controller drivers on the .iso files are not supporting the hardware.

 

What CENTOS version is on the .iso file?

 

It looks like it must be CENTOS 8 or CENTOS 9 to support this server hardware.

 

The ISO is CentOS 7.  You’re the first to run into hardware that it can’t handle.

 

If you’re not looking to run a full toolkit, the best short-term solution is to install an OS that supports your hardware and run the testpoint Docker container.  As we are not supporting CentOS later than 7 (see https://www.perfsonar.net/post-2021-08-05-os-support.html), I’d recommend installing Alma Linux 8.  This will provide a path to run perfSONAR on the bare metal without having to reinstall the OS once we release RPMs for EL8.

 

The ISO will remain CentOS 7-based for the initial release of 5.0.  We’re getting close to having full EL8 support and that will be distributed for whatever the current release is when we’re happy with it.  (In other words, there won’t be a separate feature or bugfix release when it happens.)  There’s no concrete plan yet, but if we don’t have any stability problems with the EL8 version in the field, the next feature release will probably shift the ISO to EL8.

 

Once we release for EL8, we’ll start working on EL9.  This won’t take anywhere near as long as EL8 did because we’ve made some internal changes that make supporting more distributions easier.

 

Hope that helps.

 

--Mark