IBM Spectrum Scale, based on IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS™) , is a proven, scalable, high-performance file management system that is being used extensively across multiple industries worldwide. IBM Spectrum Scale provides simplified data management and integrated information lifecycle tools capable of managing petabytes of data and billions of files, in order to address the growing cost of managing ever growing amounts of data.
Some of the key benefits of IBM Spectrum Scale:
- Modern scale out architecture
- A global namespace that can spans datacenters and the globe
- Access file data directly or using NFS, SMB, Object and Hadoop
- Virtually limitless performance and capacity scaling
- Automated data placement and data migration
- Leverage less expensive commodity storage
- Integrated with IBM Spectrum Archive and IBM Spectrum Protect
- A long history of proven reliability across multiple industries
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IBM Spectrum Scale is at the forefront of storage technologies and continues to innovate with every release. We welcome your participation in the process by providing feedback to help us ensure IBM continues fulfilling your storage needs today and in the future.
New in IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.2 [November 2016 Release]
- ES iSCSI support for remotely booting nodes
- Enhancements in Hadoop data collection by using gpfs.snap command on Linux
- Enabling object access to existing filesets
- Enhanced operating system support with spectrum scale installation toolkit
- Enhanced support for accessing data over SMB without setting the READ_ACL (Read Permissions) bit on every file and directory
- Extended status information
- File Placement Optimizer enhancements
- GPFS log time stamp with time zone information
- IBM Spectrum Scale GUI Improvements
- ILM for snapshots
- Improved performance monitoring by using Grafana
- Linux on z Systems™ enhancements
- Logging file system activity by using Varonis
- Mixed operating systems support with spectrumscale installation toolkit
- mmhealth command enhancements
- mmprotocoltrace command enhancements
- Network checking: mmnetverify command
- New features and enhancements in cloud services
- New features in NFS
- New sensors added to the list of performance metrics
- Object heatmap data tiering policy
- Objects: Secure communication between the proxy server and other backend servers
- Quality of Service for I/O operations (QoS)
- REST-style API for performing IBM Spectrum Scale tasks
- Tuning parameters change history
For more details: Spectrum Scale 4.2.2 Summary of Changes
New in IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.1 [July 2016 Release]
- Introducing Transparent Cloud Tiering
- Enhanced monitoring and system health check using mmhealth
- Added SLES support for NFS and SMB protocols
- Compression support for FPO environments
- Enhanced documentation Updates
- Encryption: Simplified setup and Vormetric DSM support
- Federation in the performance monitoring tool
- Enhanced Guided Installation
- Enhanced Hadoop support
- Performance enhancement and improvement including consolidation of performance tunables
- Extended features like QoS, GUI for z systems
- Object storage improvements
- Enhancement in spectrum Scale GUI
- Auditing of config changes
For more details : Spectrum Scale 4.2.1 Summary of Changes
Building on the improvements on Spectrum Scale 4.2 [December 2015 Release]:
Simplified administration
- Improved provisioning and administrator productivity with a new GUI
- Management of resource contention with Quality of Service (QoS) prioritization and monitoring
- Storage portfolio visibility with IBM Spectrum Control integration
Efficient storage for all workloads
- Unified file and object storage with integrated data analytics
- Policy-based migration to the optimum storage pool and active archive
- Storage space savings with compression
Help speed Big Data Analytics
- Faster, easier, and reliable workflows with native Hadoop support, multiprotocol NAS, and proven enterprise capabilities
- Highly available read and write caching accelerate applications
The IBM Spectrum Scale team is interested in your feedback on what enhancements would benefit your business, especially around your Big Data challenges. We invite you to share your feedback with us via the Forum or open a requirement using the Request for Enhancement button.
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- Wiki
Read and contribute best practices on the Spectrum Scale wiki.
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- IBM Fix Central – Software Updates
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The IBM Spectrum Scale community covers many industries from financial analytics to digital media, from product engineering and design to biotech research. You will find pointers here to engage with a world-wide user group of IBM Spectrum Scale administrators and the IBM Spectrum Scale development team.
Getting Started
- More details about IBM Spectrum Scale(like datasheets, solution briefs etc) can be found at the product website
- IBM Spectrum Scale product documentation
- IBM Spectrum Scale frequently asked questions
How to Engage
- IBM Spectrum Scale Wiki – Learn, discover, and share information
- IBM Spectrum Scale Forum – Share feedback and discuss technical IBM Spectrum Scale issues
- Become a member of the ‘GPFS user group’ community
- IBM Spectrum Scale announce forum – Keep up with the latest IBM Spectrum Scale product announcements
- IBM Spectrum Scale trials:
- Prospective customers can try IBM Spectrum Scale free for 90 days. Please contact your IBM sales representative for more information.
- ISVs can get software and licenses via ‘IBM PartnerWorld Software Access Catalog’
Collaborate
- Forum
Ask and respond to technical questions on the Spectrum Scale forums.
- Wiki
Read and contribute best practices on the Spectrum Scale wiki.
Service requests and PMRs
- Support
Easy, Fast, Smart. Your customized support experience.
- IBM Support Portal
- IBM Fix Central – Software Updates
- IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC)
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Featured tooling:
- Develop mobile apps with IBM MobileFirst Object Store Adapter for Spectrum Scale
- Tooling for IBM Spectrum Scale monitoring
Featured blogs/links
- IBM Spectrum Scale Monthly Partner Calls
- Spectrum Scale user talking about protocol support with 4.1.1 release
- Implement WORM for regulatory compliance with IBM Spectrum Scale
- Learn why Spectrum Scale is a good choice for OpenStack Object Store environments
- Elastic Storage Server as a replacement for traditional RAID
- GPFS user group activities
- IBM Spectrum Scale with OpenStack
- IBM Spectrum Scale object encryption at rest
- GPFS Native RAID + TSM on 40 GBit ethernet
IBM Spectrum Scale Trial on the AWS Cloud
IBM Spectrum Scale is now available as a trial on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud via a Quick Start. You are invited to test the functionality provided by the Quick Start, which deploys an IBM Spectrum Scale (version 4.2.3) Cluster on AWS Cloud creating Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and Elastic Block Storage (EBS). The number of instances launched and storage configured is based on some configuration parameters provided to the CloudFormation template used by the Quick Start. Additional details about the deployment, use, licensing & restrictions are provided in the deployment guide which is linked on the Quick Start page. Use IBM Spectrum Scale Forum or mail to scale@us.ibm.com to ask questions and to give your feedback.
Use IBM Spectrum Scale Forum or mail to scale@us.ibm.com to ask questions and to give your feedback.
| Date | Type | Description | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2017 | Open Trial | IBM Spectrum Scale Trial on AWS Cloud using Quick Start | Quick Start Launch |
IBM Spectrum Scale Trial VM
This Trial VM offers fully pre-configured IBM Spectrum Scale instance in a virtual machine based on IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2 GA version. The download bundle includes the virtual image and the requisite guides (Quick Start guide, Explore guide and Advanced guide) allowing you to try the key features in minutes. Use the Quick Start guide for installation instructions. The Explore guide provides step-by-step instructions to try our unified file & Object as well as GUI functionality.
Use IBM Spectrum Scale Forum or mail to scale@us.ibm.com to ask questions and to give your feedback.
| Date | Type | Description | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Mar 2017 | Evaluation | VM with pre-configured IBM Spectrum Scale | Download |
IBM Spectrum Scale Object Metadata Search Open Beta
One of the unique features of an object storage solution is the ability to set user-defined metadata to containers and objects. But, without an ability to efficiently search the containers/objects based on this metadata (key/value pairs), the object storage industry has not been able to leverage the full potential of this valuable asset. Now with IBM Spectrum Scale Object Metadata Search, users can search for containers or objects based on a specific set of metadata. This open beta program introduces object metadata search function and provides the instructions on how to configure, deploy and use the object metadata search feature on top of the Spectrum Scale Object Storage offering.You can use this functionality on top of your existing 4.1+ installation of Spectrum Scale Object Storage.
For quick introduction to this feature, take a look at the presentation:
Mail to nilesh.bhosale@in.ibm.com to ask questions and to give your feedback.
| Date | Type | Description | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Mar 2016 | Open Beta | IBM Spectrum Scale Object Metadata Search Open Beta | Download |
IBM Spectrum Scale GUI Open Beta
The IBM Spectrum Scale GUI (Graphical User Interface) is the graphical interface for IBM Spectrum Scale. You are invited to test the latest GA version of our GUI here. You can try this GUI with your existing 4.2.x installs of Spectrum Scale but to use all features we suggest the latest GA version which is 4.2.2 to test all new features. Great new features are added we described in the documentation of the package.
Try the beta build below. Use IBM Spectrum Scale forum or mail to GUI Feedback to ask questions and to give your feedback.
| Date | Type | Description | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2016 | Open Beta | IBM Spectrum Scale GUI | Download |
This GUI will be part of IBM Spectrum Scale release builds and is meant to serve for single cluster deployments. Customers can also leverage IBM Spectrum Control to manage IBM Spectrum Scale across multiple clusters. You can try IBM Spectrum Control’s integration with IBM Spectrum Scale here.
Collaborate
- Forum
Ask and respond to technical questions on the Spectrum Scale forums.
- Wiki
Read and contribute best practices on the Spectrum Scale wiki.
Service requests and PMRs
- Support
Easy, Fast, Smart. Your customized support experience.
- IBM Support Portal
- IBM Fix Central – Software Updates
- IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC)
Request for enhancement
Choose a request type:
Social