[CMS Connect question] EL7 migration

[khurtado]

Hello everyone,

New hardware is coming to CMS Connect soon, a dedicated node with more cores, memory and scratch space . As Red Hat 6 support ends at the end of 2020, we are planning to install RHEL7 on this submit node.

Is working with an EL7 submit node something that would stop you from producing gridpacks at all? (the EL6 submit node will be kept for a while, maybe until summer, but no longer than 2020). I know EL6 gridpacks are compatible with EL7, which is why people is still mostly using the EL6 submit node (the EL7 one is almost always empty), but is this the only reason?

[agrohsje]

Hi @khurtado , as far as I know we had no issues with slc7 so far. The master is still slc6, another reason why people still use it and yes it can run on slc7.