Introducing IBM Spectrum Scale
- IBM Spectrum Scale product structure
IBM Spectrum Scale™ has three different editions based on functional levels. Each edition can be licensed by IBM Spectrum Scale Client license, IBM Spectrum Scale Server license, and IBM Spectrum Scale FPO license. - Overview of GPFS
GPFS™ is a cluster file system that provides concurrent access to a single file system or set of file systems from multiple nodes. The nodes can be SAN attached, network attached, a mixture of SAN attached and network attached, or in a shared nothing cluster configuration. This enables high performance access to this common set of data to support a scale-out solution or provide a high availability platform. - GPFS architecture
Interaction between nodes at the file system level is limited to the locks and control flows required to maintain data and metadata integrity in the parallel environment. - Protocols support overview: Integration of protocol access methods with GPFS
Starting with V4.1.1, IBM Spectrum Scale provides additional protocol access methods in the Standard and Advanced editions of the product. Providing these additional file and object access methods and integrating them with GPFS offers several benefits. It enables users to consolidate various sources of data efficiently in one global namespace. It provides a unified data management solution and enables not just efficient space utilization but also avoids having to make unnecessary data moves just because access methods may be different. - Introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale GUI
The IBM Spectrum Scale management GUI provides an easy way to configure and manage various features that are available with the IBM Spectrum Scale system.