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Version 7.2.1

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Symphony Spot Instance partial fulfillment

There is a cost concern for spot instance partial fulfillment . Say we request spot fleet with 500 hosts. It is only fulfilled 200 hosts, then we cancel the request. We still got charged for those 200 hosts even it is just a few minutes. Amazon te...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Delivered

RHEL 7.9 support

Hello, We are migrating all the current systems to a more updated version of the O.S. Our plan is to migrate our Symphony servers to RHEL 7.9, but we confirmed with support it is not officially supported. We request the certification of RHEL 7.9 v...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

more values of allocationStrategy supported in 7.2.1.1

Like 7.3, 7.2.1.1 should also have feature "allocationStrategy" like CapacityOptmized, Diversity, etc. Currently 7,2,1,1 HostFactory supports " lowestPrice"
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Delivered

Add Windows 2019 Support on Symphony 7.2

Windows 2019 has been recommended as the next OS on Compute layer by our Infrastructure team.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Delivered

Remediate duplicate spot instance creation by HostFactory (Dangling Hosts)

We are requesting remediation of the HostFactory behavior that causes generation of resources instead of terminating a request that times out Another related case: TS003836283
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Balance tasks between Resource Groups

We currently use Balanced Slot Allocation in Resource groups to allow tasks to be balanced evenly between resources. However, if Resource groups are heterogeneous, or if a Consumer can use 2 resource groups, it is not balancing tasks between the r...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

[HostFactory][RFE][PIMCO] - HostFactory supports AWS reserved instance

Currently HF supports on-demand and spot instance. We request to support reserved instance. There are 2 types reserved instance. We expect IBM symphony can support both however we will use scheduled reserved instance around May, 2020 https://docs....
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 3 Delivered

Certify Redhat 8

Request t certify Redhat 8 with Symphony 7.2.1.1
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Add heartbeat and restarting for plc java process

Currently, plc hang without any error or warning message. we request to add heartbeat and restarting for plc java processes.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

We need Oracle 19c certified for Symphony 7.1 and 7.2.1

Please certify Symphony 7.1.0 and 7.2.1 for Oracle 19c. Our DB team will be upgrading database and we need to make sure that Oracle 19c is certified for use with Symphony 7.1.0 and 7.2.1.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered