perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Rivero, Victor" <>]

Hello Mark, good afternoon.

 

How are you doing?

 

Wanted to get back to you, to ask for some help.

 

We were able to install Alma Linux on our server and also testpoint was installed.

 

But the thing is that we need the full toolkit, because we are migrating from an old server that already has it and it is required on the new server.

 

So, we have a couple of questions.

 

https://www.perfsonar.net/post-2021-08-05-os-support.html

Want to ask you if there is already a full toolkit developed for Alma Linux.

 

https://www.perfsonar.net/releasenotes-2022-05-31-5-0-0b1.html

Or even on a Beta version, that we can install and test on our server.

 

Do you have an estimated time for the release of perfSONAR 5.0?

 

https://docs.perfsonar.net/install_rcs.html

 

Please review this information and let us know about your comments.

 

Thank you for all your help and support.

 

 

 

From: Rivero, Victor
Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 1:45 PM
To: 'Mark Feit' <>;
Subject: RE: [perfsonar-user] Perfsonar questions

 

Hello Mark.

 

Thank you for your email.

 

I really appreciate it.

 

I will follow up internally with the team.

 

Thank you so much for all your help, support and time.

 

Have a great day.

 

 

 

From: Mark Feit []
Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 9:34 AM
To: Rivero, Victor <>;
Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Perfsonar questions

 

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(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