Chapter 1. Release 6.2
This chapter summarizes HPSS changes for Release 6.2 into four categories: new features, retired features, deferred features, and changed features. Changes since release 4.5 and 5.1 are described.
1.1. New Features
This section describes the new HPSS features added to Release 6.2.
1.1.1. DCE Replacement
Previous HPSS releases used DCE to provide authenticated client/server remote procedure calls. Since DCE is no longer offered as a commercial product, it has been replaced in HPSS with a solution based on commercially available authentication services and ONC RPC technology.
The new HPSS infrastructure provides four primary
1.1.2. Linux Support
All HPSS servers are fully supported on Linux.
1.1.3. Security
The HPSS Security implementation, which was based on DCE security, has been replaced with Unix or MIT Kerberos authentication and with Unix or LDAP authorization. Refer to Chapter 2: Security and System Access of the HPSS Management Guide and Section 3.2.7: Security on page 57 for more information.
1.1.4. SCSI PVR
Support for SCSI connected tape libraries has been added to HPSS 6.2 The SCSI PVR can be used to control any SCSI command based tape library.
1.1.5. HPSS VFS Interface
The HPSS VFS Interface provides a POSIX I/O interface to the HPSS filesystem. The root of the HPSS directory tree or a subdirectory can be mounted as a filesytem. HPSS files can be accessed by any software that complies with the POSIX I/O API by using the HPSS VFS Interface. For more information, please refer to Section 13.4: HPSS VFS Interface Configuration of the HPSS Management Guide.
1.1.6. GridFTP Interface
The GridFTP interface uses the PIO interface to transfer data into/from HPSS.
1.1.7. SAN3P/PIO Support
PIO can be used to issue I/O requests to direct attached HPSS SAN3P disk cache.
1.1.8. Additional hpssadm Configuration Options
•Class of Service (COS)
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