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This IBM® Redbooks publication introduces and describes the IBM Elastic Storage® Server 3000 (ESS 3000) as a scalable, high-performance data and file management solution. The solution is built on proven IBM Spectrum® Scale technology, formerly IBM General Parallel File System (IBM GPFS).

IBM Elastic Storage System 3000 is an all-Flash array platform. This storage platform uses NVMe-attached drives in ESS 3000 to provide significant performance improvements as compared to SAS-attached flash drives. This book provides a technical overview of the ESS 3000 solution and helps you to plan the installation of the environment. We also explain the use cases where we believe it fits best. Our goal is to position this book as the starting point document for customers that would use ESS 3000 as part of their IBM Spectrum Scale setups.

This book is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who are responsible for delivering cost-effective storage solutions with ESS 3000.

Table of Contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Preface
    1. Authors
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    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction
    1. 1.1 IBM Spectrum Scale RAID
    2. 1.1.1 Product history
    3. 1.1.2 Distinguishing features
    4. 1.2 IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS)
    5. 1.3 IBM Elastic Storage System 3000
    6. 1.3.1 What is new in ESS 3000?
    7. 1.3.2 Value added
    8. 1.4 License considerations
  5. Chapter 2. ESS 3000 architecture and  overview
    1. 2.1 Platform
    2. 2.1.1 Canisters and servers
    3. 2.1.2 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)
    4. 2.1.3 NVMe (non-volatile memory express)
    5. 2.2 GUI enhancements
    6. 2.2.1 GUI users
    7. 2.2.2 System setup wizard
    8. 2.2.3 Using the GUI
    9. 2.2.4 Monitoring of ESS 3000 hardware
    10. 2.2.5 Storage
    11. 2.2.6 Replace broken disks
    12. 2.2.7 Health events
    13. 2.2.8 Event notification
    14. 2.2.9 Dashboards
    15. 2.2.10 More information
    16. 2.3 Software enhancements
    17. 2.3.1 Containerized deployment
    18. 2.3.2 Ansible
    19. 2.3.3 The mmvdisk command
    20. 2.3.4 The mmhealth command
    21. 2.4 RAS enhancements
    22. 2.4.1 Enclosure overview
    23. 2.4.2 Machine type model and warranty
    24. 2.4.3 Components: FRU versus CRU
    25. 2.4.4 RAS features
    26. 2.4.5 Maintenance and service procedures
    27. 2.4.6 Software related RAS enhancements
    28. 2.4.7 Integrated call home
    29. 2.4.8 Software call home
    30. 2.4.9 Performance
  6. Chapter 3. Planning considerations
    1. 3.1 Planning
    2. 3.1.1 Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA)
    3. 3.1.2 Hardware remarks
    4. 3.2 Standalone environment
    5. 3.3 Mixed environment
    6. 3.3.1 Adding ESS 3000 to an existing ESS cluster
    7. 3.3.2 Scenario-1: Using ESS 3000 for metadata NSDs for the existing file system
    8. 3.3.3 Scenario-2: Using ESS 3000 to create a new file system
  7. Chapter 4. Use cases
    1. 4.1 Metadata and High Speed Data Tiering
    2. 4.2 Database use cases
    3. 4.2.1 IBM Spectrum Scale for SAP HANA
    4. 4.2.2 Deploy ESS
    5. 4.2.3 Creating a file system
    6. 4.2.4 Preparing your clients (HANA nodes)
    7. 4.2.5 Using the file systems
    8. 4.3 Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
    9. 4.4 Other uses cases
    10. 4.4.1 IBM Spectrum Scale with big data and analytics solutions
    11. 4.4.2 Genomics Medicine workloads in IBM Spectrum Scale
    12. 4.4.3 IBM Cloud Object Store
  8. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Online resources
    3. Help from IBM
  9. Back cover
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