ESS 5000 Hardware Guide

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System overview
IBM Elastic Storage® System 5000 (ESS 5000) is a high-capacity storage system that uses the GPFS file system. It combines the IBM Elastic Storage System (5105) on the IBM POWER9 architecture with the IBM Spectrum Scale software, which provides the clustered file system.
Installing
An IBM Service Support Representative (SSR) must install and configure the ESS 5000 system by following the plan that you provide to them.
Troubleshooting (SSR tasks)
This section will help you to troubleshoot issues that are faced while configuring EMS and Elastic Storage System 5000.
Planning worksheets (customer task)
Customers are responsible for completing the system planning worksheets. Planning worksheets can help you identify important information that is needed when the system is installed and configured.
5105 22E: Reference information
Switch VLAN configuration instructions
This topic describes the instructions that are needed to configure an IBM Cumulus switch VLAN.
PCIe4 x16 2-port HDR 100 Gb InfiniBand ConnectX-6 adapter (FC EC6G; CCIN 590E)
Learn about the specifications and operating system requirements for feature code (FC) EC6G.