Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide |
This guide provides the following information:Product
overview
- Overview of IBM Spectrum
Scale
- GPFS architecture
- Protocols support overview: Integration of protocol access methods with GPFS
- Active File Management
- AFM-based Asynchronous Disaster Recovery (AFM DR)
- Data protection and disaster recovery in IBM Spectrum Scale
- Introduction to IBM Spectrum
Scale GUI
- IBM Spectrum Scale
management API
- Introduction to Cloud services
- Introduction to file audit logging
- Introduction to watch folder API
- Introduction to clustered watch folder
- IBM Spectrum Scale in an
OpenStack cloud deployment
- IBM Spectrum Scale product
editions
- IBM Spectrum Scale license
designation
- Capacity based licensing
- IBM Spectrum Storage™ Suite
Understanding call home![End of change](./deltaend.gif)
Planning
- Planning for GPFS
- Planning for protocols
- Planning for Cloud services
- Planning for AFM
- Planning for AFM DR
- Firewall recommendations
- Considerations for GPFS applications
Security-Enhanced Linux support![End of change](./deltaend.gif)
Space requirements for call home data upload![End of change](./deltaend.gif)
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Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide |
Installing
- Steps for establishing and starting your IBM Spectrum Scale cluster
- Installing IBM Spectrum
Scale on Linux® nodes and deploying protocols
- Installing IBM Spectrum
Scale on AIX® nodes
- Installing IBM Spectrum
Scale on Windows nodes
- Installing Cloud services on IBM
Spectrum Scale nodes
- Installing and configuring IBM
Spectrum Scale management API
- Installation of Active File Management (AFM)
- Installing and upgrading AFM-based Disaster Recovery
- Installing call home
- Installing file audit logging
- Installing watch folder API
- Installing clustered watch folder
- Steps to permanently uninstall GPFS
Upgrading
- IBM Spectrum Scale
supported upgrade paths
- Upgrading to IBM Spectrum
Scale 5.0.x from IBM Spectrum
Scale 4.2.y or later
- Upgrading to IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.y from IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.x
- Online upgrade support for protocols and performance monitoring
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Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide |
- Upgrading IBM Spectrum® Scale non-protocol Linux nodes
- Upgrading IBM Spectrum Scale protocol nodes
- Upgrading AFM and AFM DR
- Upgrading object packages
- Upgrading SMB packages
- Upgrading NFS packages
- Upgrading call home
- Manually upgrading the performance monitoring tool
- Manually upgrading pmswift
- Manually upgrading the IBM
Spectrum Scale management GUI
- Upgrading Cloud services
- Upgrading to IBM® Cloud Object Storage software level 3.7.2
and above
- Upgrade paths and commands for file audit logging, watch folder API, and clustered watch
folder
- Upgrading with clustered watch folder enabled
- Upgrading IBM Spectrum
Scale components with the installation toolkit
- Changing IBM Spectrum Scale
product edition
- Completing the upgrade to a new level of IBM Spectrum Scale
- Reverting to the previous level of IBM Spectrum Scale
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Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide |
- Coexistence considerations
- Compatibility considerations
- Considerations for IBM
Spectrum Protect for Space Management
- Applying maintenance to your GPFS
system
- Guidance for upgrading the operating system on IBM
Spectrum Scale nodes
- Servicing IBM Spectrum Scale protocol nodes
- Offline upgrade with complete cluster shutdown
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Administration Guide |
This guide provides the following information:
Configuring
- Configuring the GPFS cluster
- Configuring the CES and protocol configuration
- Configuring and tuning your system for GPFS
- Parameters for performance tuning and optimization
- Ensuring high availability of the GUI service
- Configuring and tuning your system for Cloud services
Configuring IBM Power Systems for IBM Spectrum Scale![End of change](./deltaend.gif)
- Configuring the message queue
- Configuring file audit logging
- Configuring clustered watch folder
- Configuring Active File Management
- Configuring AFM-based DR
- Tuning for Kernel NFS backend on AFM and AFM DR
Configuring call home![End of change](./deltaend.gif)
Administering
- Performing GPFS administration tasks
- Verifying network operation with the mmnetverify command
- Managing file systems
- File system format changes between versions of IBM Spectrum Scale
- Managing disks
- Managing protocol services
- Managing protocol user authentication
- Managing protocol data exports
- Managing object storage
- Managing GPFS quotas
- Managing GUI users
- Managing GPFS access control lists
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Administration Guide |
- Native NFS and GPFS
- Accessing a remote GPFS file system
- Information lifecycle management for IBM Spectrum Scale
- Creating and maintaining snapshots of file systems
- Creating and managing file clones
- Scale Out Backup and Restore (SOBAR)
- Data Mirroring and Replication
- Implementing a clustered NFS environment on Linux
- Implementing Cluster Export Services
- Identity management on Windows / RFC 2307
Attributes
- Protocols cluster disaster recovery
- File Placement Optimizer
- Encryption
- Managing certificates to secure communications between GUI web server and web browsers
- Securing protocol data
- Cloud services: Transparent cloud tiering and Cloud data sharing
- Managing file audit logging
- Performing a watch with watch folder API
- RDMA tuning
Configuring Mellanox Memory Translation Table (MTT) for GPFS RDMA
VERBS Operation![End of change](./deltaend.gif)
- Administering AFM
- Administering AFM DR
- Highly-available write cache (HAWC)
- Local read-only cache
- Miscellaneous advanced administration
- GUI limitations
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Problem Determination Guide |
This guide provides the following information: Monitoring
- Performance monitoring
- Monitoring system health through the IBM Spectrum Scale GUI
- Monitoring system health by using the mmhealth command
- Monitoring events through callbacks
- Monitoring capacity through GUI
- Monitoring AFM and AFM DR
- GPFS SNMP support
- Monitoring the IBM Spectrum
Scale system by using call home
- Monitoring remote cluster through GUI
- Monitoring the message queue
- Monitoring file audit logging
- Monitoring clustered watch
Troubleshooting
- Best practices for troubleshooting
- Understanding the system limitations
- Collecting details of the issues
- Managing deadlocks
- Installation and configuration issues
- Upgrade issues
- Network issues
- File system issues
- Disk issues
- Security issues
- Protocol issues
- Disaster recovery issues
- Performance issues
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GUI and monitoring issues ![End of change](./deltaend.gif)
- AFM issues
- AFM DR issues
- Transparent cloud tiering issues
- File audit logging issues
- Troubleshooting watch folder API
- Troubleshooting mmwatch
- Message queue issues
- Maintenance procedures
- Recovery procedures
- Support for troubleshooting
- References
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Command and Programming Reference |
This guide provides the following information: Command
reference
- gpfs.snap command
- mmaddcallback command
- mmadddisk command
- mmaddnode command
- mmadquery command
- mmafmconfig command
- mmafmctl command
- mmafmlocal command
- mmapplypolicy command
- mmaudit command
- mmauth command
- mmbackup command
- mmbackupconfig command
- mmblock command
- mmbuildgpl command
- mmcachectl command
- mmcallhome command
- mmces command
- mmcesdr command
- mmchattr command
- mmchcluster command
- mmchconfig command
- mmchdisk command
- mmcheckquota command
- mmchfileset command
- mmchfs command
- mmchlicense command
- mmchmgr command
- mmchnode command
- mmchnodeclass command
- mmchnsd command
- mmchpolicy command
- mmchpool command
- mmchqos command
- mmclidecode command
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Command and Programming Reference |
- mmclone command
- mmcloudgateway command
- mmcrcluster command
- mmcrfileset command
- mmcrfs command
- mmcrnodeclass command
- mmcrnsd command
- mmcrsnapshot command
- mmdefedquota command
- mmdefquotaoff command
- mmdefquotaon command
- mmdefragfs command
- mmdelacl command
- mmdelcallback command
- mmdeldisk command
- mmdelfileset command
- mmdelfs command
- mmdelnode command
- mmdelnodeclass command
- mmdelnsd command
- mmdelsnapshot command
- mmdf command
- mmdiag command
- mmdsh command
- mmeditacl command
- mmedquota command
- mmexportfs command
- mmfsck command
- mmfsctl command
- mmgetacl command
- mmgetstate command
- mmhadoopctl command
- mmhdfs command
- mmhealth command
- mmimgbackup command
- mmimgrestore command
- mmimportfs command
- mmkeyserv command
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Command and Programming Reference |
- mmlinkfileset command
- mmlsattr command
- mmlscallback command
- mmlscluster command
- mmlsconfig command
- mmlsdisk command
- mmlsfileset command
- mmlsfs command
- mmlslicense command
- mmlsmgr command
- mmlsmount command
- mmlsnodeclass command
- mmlsnsd command
- mmlspolicy command
- mmlspool command
- mmlsqos command
- mmlsquota command
- mmlssnapshot command
- mmmigratefs command
- mmmount command
- mmmsgqueue command
- mmnetverify command
- mmnfs command
- mmnsddiscover command
- mmobj command
- mmperfmon command
- mmpmon command
- mmprotocoltrace command
- mmpsnap command
- mmputacl command
- mmquotaoff command
- mmquotaon command
- mmreclaimspace command
- mmremotecluster command
- mmremotefs command
- mmrepquota command
- mmrestoreconfig command
- mmrestorefs command
- mmrestripefile command
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Command and Programming Reference |
- mmrestripefs command
- mmrpldisk command
- mmsdrrestore command
- mmsetquota command
- mmshutdown command
- mmsmb command
- mmsnapdir command
- mmstartup command
- mmtracectl command
- mmumount command
- mmunlinkfileset command
- mmuserauth command
- mmwatch command
- mmwinservctl command
- spectrumscale command
Programming reference
- IBM Spectrum Scale Data
Management API for GPFS information
- GPFS programming interfaces
- GPFS user exits
- IBM Spectrum Scale
management API commands
- Watch folder API
- Considerations for GPFS applications
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Big Data and Analytics Guide |
This guide provides the following information: Summary of
changes
Hadoop Scale Storage Architecture
- Elastic Storage Server (ESS)
- Erasure Code Edition
- Share Storage (SAN-based storage)
- File Placement Optimizer (FPO)
- Deployment model
- Additional supported features about storage
IBM Spectrum Scale support for Hadoop
- HDFS transparency
- Supported IBM Spectrum Scale storage modes
- Hadoop cluster planning
- CES HDFS
- Installation and configuration of HDFS transparency
- Application interaction with HDFS transparency
- Upgrading the HDFS Transparency cluster
- Rolling upgrade for HDFS Transparency
- Security
Configuration![End of change](./deltaend.gif)
- Advanced features
- Hadoop distribution support
- Limitations and differences from native HDFS
- Problem determination
IBM Spectrum Scale Hadoop performance
tuning guide
- Overview
- Performance overview
- Hadoop Performance Planning over IBM Spectrum
Scale
- Performance guide
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Big Data and Analytics Guide |
Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud Base
- Overview
- Planning
- Installation
- Configuration
- Administration
- Limitations
- Problem determination
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Big Data and Analytics Guide |
Hortonworks Data Platform 3.X
- Planning
- Installation
- Upgrading and uninstallation
- Configuration
- Administration
- Limitations
- Problem determination
Open Source Apache Hadoop
- Open Source Apache Hadoop without CES HDFS
- Open Source Apache Hadoop with CES HDFS
BigInsights® 4.2.5 and Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6
- Planning
- Installation
- Upgrading software stack
- Configuration
- Administration
- Troubleshooting
- Limitations
- FAQ
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IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code
Edition Guide |
IBM Spectrum
Scale Erasure Code Edition
- Summary of changes
- Introduction to
IBM Spectrum
Scale Erasure Code Edition
- Planning for
IBM Spectrum
Scale Erasure Code Edition
- Installing
IBM Spectrum
Scale Erasure Code Edition
Uninstalling
IBM Spectrum
Scale Erasure Code Edition![End of change](./deltaend.gif)
- Incorporating
IBM Spectrum
Scale Erasure Code Edition in an Elastic Storage Server (ESS)
cluster
- Creating an
IBM Spectrum
Scale Erasure Code Edition storage environment
Using
IBM Spectrum
Scale Erasure Code Edition for data
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- Upgrading
IBM Spectrum
Scale Erasure Code Edition
- Administering
IBM Spectrum
Scale Erasure Code Edition
- Troubleshooting
- IBM Spectrum Scale RAID Administration
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IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface Driver Guide |
This guide provides the following information:![Start of change](./delta.gif)
- Summary of changes
- Introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface driver
- Planning for IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface driver
- Installation of IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface driver
- Upgrading IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface driver
- Migrating from IBM Storage Enabler for Containers to IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage
Interface Driver
- Configuring IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface driver
- Using IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface driver
- Managing IBM Spectrum Scale when used with IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface
driver
- Limitations
- Troubleshooting
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IBM Spectrum Scale on AWS Guide![End of change](./deltaend.gif) |
This guide provides the following information:
- Summary of changes
- Introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale on AWS
- Setting up the IBM Spectrum Scale environment in the AWS Cloud
- Deploying IBM Spectrum Scale on AWS
- Creating custom AMI
- Cluster lifecycle management
- Accessing IBM Spectrum Scale GUI in AWS
- Active file management on AWS
- Upgrading IBM Spectrum Scale
- Cleaning up the cluster and the stack
- Data security and AWS Identity and Access Management
- Diagnosing and cleaning-up deployment failures
- Collecting debug data
- Troubleshooting
- Frequently Asked Questions
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