Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes. June 17,

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1 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes June 17,

2 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes Table of Contents Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes 1 Table of Contents 2 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Overview 3 Zing Pilot Release Kit Component Versions 3 New Features and Updates 4 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Co-Bundled Packages 4 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Resolved Issues 5 Advisory! 5 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Known Issues 6 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Operating System Requirements 7 Legal Notice 11 Azul Systems Confidential and Proprietary 2

3 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Overview Zing Pilot Assist Kit Overview The Azul Systems Zing platform uses the Zing Virtual Machine (ZVM) to run Java technologybased applications. In the Zing product, the Zing System Tools (ZST) component, installed on each ZVM host system, manages the elastic and highly scalable shared memory resources. These release notes describe changes and known and fixed issues for the Zing Pilot Assist Kit version The Pilot Assist Kit Guide is part of Azul's Zing Pilot Assist Kit (Zing PAK). It provides steps and information to help you install Zing for evaluation, pilot, and testing purposes. The Zing Pilot Assist Kit is designed to ensure your trial period functions smoothly. Using the Zing Pilot Assist Kit ensures a successful Zing installation, system configuration, and ZVM launch by: Ensuring you are installing a version of Zing that is compatible with your environment. Ensuring Zing component compatibility so that the ZVM component version is compatible with the ZST component version. Validating the host system can support Zing. Checking for required operating system settings. Providing a list of settings that might need to be modified. Providing a means to determine the best set of command line options to launch the ZVM process without changing any of your pre-existing scripts. Zing Pilot Assist Kit prepares a recipe to help system administrators configure the host system to use the ZVM to run your Java applications. Zing Pilot Release Kit Component Versions The Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes incorporate the following Zing product component versions: ZVM ZST Azul Systems Confidential and Proprietary 3

4 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes New Features and Updates New for Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes, are: Bug fixes For additional information, please see the following: NOTE Zing Pilot Assist Kit Guide, , or Zing Release Notes, Zing Pilot Assist Kit Co-Bundled Packages This section lists the Zing supported packages that work with the Zing Pilot Assist Kit. zing-jdk1.6.0_ _amd64.deb zing-jdk x86_64.rpm zing-jdk1.7.0_ _amd64.deb zing-jdk x86_64.rpm zing-jdk1.8.0_ _amd64.deb zing-jdk x86_64.rpm zing-zst-6c el5.x86_64.rpm zing-zst-6c el5.twitter.x86_64.rpm zing-zst-6c el6.x86_64.rpm zing-zst-6c sles11.x86_64.rpm zing-zst_6c x86.64-desktop _amd64.deb zing-zst_6c x86.64-server _amd64.deb zing-zst_6c x86.64-desktop _amd64.deb zing-zst-6c el5rt.x86_64.rpm zing-zst-6c el7.x86_64.rpm zing-zst_6c x86.64-desktop _amd64.deb zing-zst_6c x86.64-generic _amd64.deb zing-zst_6c x86.64-server _amd64.deb zing-zst_6c x86.64-virtual _amd64.deb zing-zst_6c x86.64-generic _amd64.deb Azul Systems Confidential and Proprietary 4

5 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Resolved Issues Zing Pilot Assist Kit Resolved Issues Advisory! Various hangs in the futex code have been reported by applications running on Haswell. Please see for more details. Even though the referenced link talks only about Redhat, the kernel bug is present in other distros too. Please check with the respective OS support teams on the latest patches available for other distros. The following table lists known issues that are resolved as of Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes The Bug IDs listed are Azul internal reference numbers. Bug ID Release Resolved Description Use lower case j when specifying total java heap requirement, in system-config-zing-memory Changed the order of sections on the options file. Azul Systems Confidential and Proprietary 5

6 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes Zing Pilot Assist Kit Known Issues The following table lists known issues as of Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes, The Bug IDs listed are Azul internal reference numbers. Bug ID Release Known Description Pilot kit should strictly check kernel version on SLES 11 SP Incorrect ZST package extracted on Ubuntu Azul Systems Confidential and Proprietary 6

7 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Operating System Requirements Zing Pilot Assist Kit Operating System Requirements The components ZVM and ZST can be installed on machines running the following operating systems using.rpm or.deb installers, as appropriate. Notes Ensure that OpenSSL or later is installed. On RHEL 5.x or CentOS 5.x systems, also install the Development Tools Package. All RHEL installations require a registered copy of RHEL and a valid Red Hat Network (RHN) account user name and password. Ensure that binutils are installed. In virtual machine environments, paravirtualization is not supported. Only HVM (Hardware-assisted Virtual Machine) cluster instances are supported. The Zing Pilot Assist Kit does not support DKMS or Debian installation. The following tables list the supported operating systems, kernel versions, and for Amazon EC2 Instances, the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) identification code. Where multiple kernel versions are listed, any from the list are supported with the associated operating system. RHEL or CentOS Operating System RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS Azul Systems Confidential and Proprietary 7

8 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes RHEL or CentOS Operating System RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS RHEL/CentOS Red Hat or CentOS Operating System Messaging Realtime Grid (MRG) RHEL, RHEL MRG, CentOS rt33.39.el6rt.x86_64 RHEL, RHEL MRG, CentOS rt57.66.el6rt.x86_64 SLES Operating System SLES 11 SP SLES 11 SP Azul Systems Confidential and Proprietary 8

9 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Operating System Requirements SLES Operating System SLES 11 SP SLES 11 SP SLES 11 SP SLES 11 SP SLES 11 SP SLES11 SP Ubuntu Operating System Ubuntu generic Ubuntu generic, generic Ubuntu generic Ubuntu , generic Amazon EC2 Instances AMI ID Amazon Linux ami-a73758ce Amazon Linux ami-a73758ce Amazon Linux ami-a73758ce Amazon Linux ami-a73758ce RHEL 7.0 Amazon Cloud ami-785bae10 Azul Systems Confidential and Proprietary 9

10 Zing Pilot Assist Kit Release Notes Amazon EC2 Instances AMI ID RHEL Amazon Cloud ami-63b6910a RHEL Amazon Cloud ami-9d0b64f4 SLES 11 SP3 Amazon Cloud default ami-e572438c Ubuntu Virtual Amazon Cloud virtual ami-b93264d0 Azul Systems Confidential and Proprietary 10

11 Legal Notice Legal Notice Published, May 15, , Azul Systems, Incorporated 1173 Borregas Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA All rights reserved. Products and specifications discussed in this document may reflect future versions and are subject to change without notice. Azul Systems assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in the informational content contained in this guide. No part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Azul Systems. Please note that the content in this document is protected under copyright law even if it is not distributed with software that includes an end user license agreement. Azul Systems, Azul Zing, Zing, and the Azul logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Azul Systems, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Red Hat is the property of Red Hat, Inc. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only for identification purposes. Azul Systems Confidential and Proprietary 11