IBM Spectrum Scale Cloud Install

IBM Spectrum Scale is a high-performance, highly available clustered file system and associated management software, and is available on a variety of platforms. It offers many features beyond common data access including data replication, policy based storage management, encryption, and multi-site operations.

The ibm-spectrum-scale-cloud-install provides terraform templates (built based on best cloud practices) to provision public cloud infrastructure (i.e. AWS, Azure, GCP and IBM Cloud) where IBM Spectrum Scale can be deployed for users who require highly available access to a shared namespace across multiple instances.

IBM Spectrum Scale - Cloud Cluster Topology

IBM Spectrum Scale™ cluster can be configured in a variety of ways. The cluster can be a heterogeneous mix of hardware platforms, virtualized instances and operating systems.

Using these templates, Spectrum Scale cluster can be deployed in below architectures;

IBM Spectrum Scale - Product Editions

IBM Spectrum Scale offers different editions based on functional levels.

IBM Spectrum Scale Standard Edition
IBM Spectrum Scale Data Access Edition
IBM Spectrum Scale Advanced Edition
IBM Spectrum Scale Data Management Edition (Recommended for Cloud usecases)
IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition
IBM Spectrum Scale Developer Edition

Learn, develop and test with IBM Spectrum Scale™, for non-production use. Developer edition provides all the features of the Data Management Edition and it is limited to 12 TB per cluster. It can be downloaded from IBM Market place

Usage

Reporting Issues and Feedback

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Disclaimer

Please note: All templates / modules / resources in this repo are released for use "AS IS" without any warranties of any kind, including, but not limited to their installation, use, or performance. We are not responsible for any damage, data loss or charges incurred with their use. You are responsible for reviewing and testing any scripts you run thoroughly before use in any production environment. This content is subject to change without notice.

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