Bug 1374716

Summary: Add vm-dump-metrics and vm-dump-metrics-devel on s390x and ppc64 and ppc64le
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: relengAssignee: Lubos Kocman <lkocman>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Version: 7.3CC: bugproxy, cgiunta, dhorak, dsoman, fdanapfe, hannsj_uhl, jjarvis, jstodola, jvavra, mbanas, rjones, tlavigne
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2016-09-09 13:08:51 UTC
Description of problem:

vhostmd is a host daemon which generates metrics for guests.  It
is used by SAP guests in particular.

vm-dump-metrics(-devel) is a guest package which can be used to
read these metrics.  It is also used by SAP software.

These packages are currently build for all architectures, but
we only ship when on x86_64 in "RHEL for SAP".

It has been requested that these packages are added to:

  s390x
  ppc64
  ppc64le  (or maybe not? - this is not clear - see below)

in:

  RHEL 7.2-z
  RHEL 7.3
  RHEL 7.4 and onwards

Some unknowns about this request:

 - Are we creating a special RHEL for SAP channel for POWER8 and s390x?

 - Are there different channels for host and guest, or is it all the same?

 - Are we shipping the ppc64le version?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

 - vhostmd-0.5-11.el7_1

See also:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182612 (s390x)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118683 (POWER8)

https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/buildinfo?buildID=423527

http://git.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/git/rcm/rcm-metadata.git/tree/distill_ng/rhel-7/rhel-7.3-prepopulate.json#n65734

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2016-09-09 13:11:53 UTC
Frank can you help with the questions in comment 0?

Comment 5 Cathy Giunta 2016-09-12 13:06:11 UTC
I see that most of the questions have been answered around ppc64 and ppc64le, both of which are needed.

We also need to support s390x as we are adding that arch to RHEL for SAP Applications as well.

To answer the other questions above:

Yes, we have separate RHEL for SAP Applications channels where we put the unique SAP Apps content as this content can NEVER be shipped in our standard RHEL channel.  And yes, we have different channels for each arch, similar to what we do for RHEL.

I think that's the last of the questions, but if more is needed, please let me know.

Regards,
Cathy

Comment 8 Lubos Kocman 2017-02-03 13:34:42 UTC
Closing as current release

-bash-4.1$ ~/bin/locate-rhel7-rpms vm-dump-metrics
Searching in /mnt/redhat/nightly/latest-RHEL-7/
Server-SAP/ppc64/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-0.5-11.el7_0.ppc.rpm
Server-SAP/ppc64/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-0.5-11.el7_0.ppc64.rpm
Server-SAP/ppc64/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-devel-0.5-11.el7_0.ppc.rpm
Server-SAP/ppc64/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-devel-0.5-11.el7_0.ppc64.rpm
Server-SAP/s390x/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-0.5-11.el7_0.s390.rpm
Server-SAP/s390x/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-0.5-11.el7_0.s390x.rpm
Server-SAP/s390x/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-devel-0.5-11.el7_0.s390.rpm
Server-SAP/s390x/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-devel-0.5-11.el7_0.s390x.rpm
Server-SAP/x86_64/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-0.5-11.el7_0.i686.rpm
Server-SAP/x86_64/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-0.5-11.el7_0.x86_64.rpm
Server-SAP/x86_64/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-devel-0.5-11.el7_0.i686.rpm
Server-SAP/x86_64/os/Packages/vm-dump-metrics-devel-0.5-11.el7_0.x86_64.rpm

Comment 10 Lubos Kocman 2017-02-03 14:13:25 UTC
devel_ack+ for missing ppc64le, not sure why I though that SAP is not on ppc64le

Thanks

Lubos

Comment 12 Richard W.M. Jones 2017-02-06 09:53:47 UTC
Currently we're looking for just the following packages:

* vm-dump-metrics
* vm-dump-metrics-devel

on the following architectures:

* ppc64
* ppc64le
* s390x

for the following version:

* RHEL 7.2-z
* RHEL 7.3-z
* RHEL 7.4

Note that we're in fact *not* wishing to distribute vhostmd
at all (although the above packages are built from the vhostmd
sources).  vhostmd is a hypervisor package which will be built
and distributed by IBM.  We only need to guest-side packages as above.

I've update the summary to make this clearer.

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 17:29:54 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:1850