Preface
This IBM® Redpaper® publication describes configuration guidelines and best practices when IBM Spectrum® Scale Container Native Storage Access is used as a storage provider for IBM Cloud® Pak for Data on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
It also provides the steps to install IBM Db2® and several assemblies within IBM Cloud Pak® for Data, including Watson Knowledge Catalog, Watson Studio, IBM DataStage®, Db2 Warehouse, Watson Machine Learning, Watson OpenScale, Data Virtualization, Data Management Console, and Apache Spark.
This IBM Redpaper publication was written for IT architects, IT specialists, developers, and others who are interested in installing IBM Cloud Pak for Data with IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native.
Authors
This paper was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at IBM Redbooks, Tucson Center.
Gero Schmidt is a Software Engineer at IBM Germany Research and Development GmbH in the IBM Spectrum Scale development group. He joined IBM in 2001 by working at the European Storage Competence Center in Mainz, Germany to provide technical presales support for a broad range of IBM storage products, with a primary focus on enterprise storage solutions, system performance, and IBM Power Systems servers. Gero participated in the product roll-out of the IBM System Storage DS6000 and DS8000® series, co-authored several IBM Redbooks publications, and was a frequent speaker at IBM international conferences. In 2015, he joined the storage research group at the IBM Almaden Research Center in California, US, where he worked on IBM Spectrum Scale, compression of genomic data in next generation sequencing pipelines, and the development of a cloud-native backup solution for containerized applications in Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. In 2018, he joined the Big Data & Analytics team in the IBM Spectrum Scale development group. He holds a degree in Physics (Dipl.-Phys.) from the Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany.
Tara Astigarraga is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and Lead Architect for Cloud Pak Storage Test at IBM. She is an IBM Master Inventor with over 75 patents issued and a passionate mentor for STEM K-12 outreach. Tara joined IBM in 2001 and spent the first 10 years of her career in IBM Systems group focused on Enterprise Storage, Server, and Networking Solutions. Then, she expanded her expertise through a one-year assignment in the Corporate technology team and five years in Watson Research as a solution Architect and Developer, building Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Blockchain, and AI Solutions for Technology Support Services. She returned to the Systems group in early 2020 and focused on IBM storage and server solutions to enable enterprise Hybrid Cloud and AI workloads.
Paulina Acevedo is one of two System Test architects for the Cloud Pak Storage Test team. Paulina has been with IBM for more than 15 years and has held several different positions within the Systems organization. She is a certified Project Manager and has been the System Test Project manager for several products including IBM XIV®, A9000, Spectrum NAS, and Spectrum Virtualize.
JJ Miller is a Storage Engineer for IBM Cloud Pak Storage Test team. Before this position, he worked on conducting testing and software development for IBM Storage DS8000 Field Support Test team. JJ has extensive background in Storage Backup and Recovery solutions with business partner AT&T, using various backup software products, such as TSM, Netbackup, Avamar, and IBM Spectrum Protect along with multiple storage systems.
Dessa Simpson is a storage test engineer at IBM on the Cloud Pak Storage Test team. Since joining IBM in 2018, she has worked in storage support for the XIV and A9000 storage systems diagnosing customer problems and writing patch scripts to work around issues found in the field. She later moved into storage interop test in the Open Systems Lab, before joining the Cloud Pak Storage Test team because of her interest in OpenShift and containerization.
Austen Stewart is a computer programmer and tester from Tucson, Arizona. He joined IBM as a co-op in 2020, working on DS8000 storage testing automation. After returning full-time in 2021, Austen began working on storage testing for Cloud Paks. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science from University of Arizona.
Todd Tosseth is a Software Engineer for IBM in Tucson, Arizona. Joining IBM in 2001, he has worked as a test and development engineer on several IBM storage products, such as IBM System Storage DS8000, IBM Spectrum Scale, and IBM Enterprise Storage Server. He is working on IBM Cloud Pak as a system test engineer, with an emphasis on Cloud Pak storage integration.
Jayson Tsingine is an Advisory Software Engineer in the IBM Systems Storage Group based in Tucson, Arizona. Jayson has worked in numerous test roles since he joined IBM in 2003, providing test support for storage products, including XIV, DS8000, FlashSystems, Hydra, Spectrum Scale, Spectrum NAS, and Cloud Pak Solutions. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona.
Israel Andres Vizcarra Godinez is a Mechatronics Engineer at Cloud Pak Storage Test team in IBM Systems organization. He joined IBM in 2015, working as a Test Specialist for the TS7700 System Storage Virtualization Engine product at Guadalajara, Mexico. He has participated in different phases of the test cycle from integration to system level test being closely related to customer requirements. Israel has developed and run manual and automation scenarios to test the stability of the code for IBM storage systems and SAN area. Currently, Israel is the automation test lead for Spectrum Scale integration with the different IBM Cloud Paks.
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Andre Tost
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Tom Clark
Alasdair Paton
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Dany Drouin
Tony Sinclair
Sudarsha Wijenayake
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Aaron Palazzolo
Deepak Rangarao
Sundari Voruganti
Andre Tost
Deepak Ghuge
Tom Clark
Alasdair Paton
Sriram Srinivasan
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