Preface
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication introduces and describes the IBM Elastic Storage™ Server 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 (GPFS™).
IBM Elastic Storage Servers can be implemented for a range of diverse requirements, providing reliability, performance, and scalability. This publication helps you to understand the solution and its architecture and helps you to plan the installation and integration of the environment. The following combination of physical and logical components are required:
•Hardware
•Operating system
•Storage
•Network
•Applications
This paper provides guidelines for several usage and integration scenarios. Typical scenarios include Cluster Export Services (CES) integration, disaster recovery, and multicluster integration.
This paper addresses the needs of technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who must deliver cost-effective cloud services and big data solutions.
Authors
A team of specialists from around the world produced this paper while they worked at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center.
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Luis Bolinches has been working with IBM Power Systems™ servers for over 15 years and has been with IBM Spectrum Scale™ (formerly known as IBM General Parallel File System (IBM GPFS) for over 8 years. He works 50% for IBM Lab Services in Nordic where he is the subject matter expert (SME) for HANA on IBM Power Systems, and the other 50% is on the IBM Spectrum Scale development team.
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Puneet Chaudhary is a Technical Solutions Architect working with the IBM Elastic Storage Server and IBM Spectrum Scale solutions. He has worked with IBM GPFS, now Spectrum Scale, for many years.
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Kiran Ghag is an IBM Storage Solution Architect, working with various clients at IBM India. He received his bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University. His current interests include software defined storage using IBM Spectrum family. Kiran joined IBM in 2013 as consultant with 10 years of experience in storage systems, currently helping IBM customers with storage solutions and storage infrastructure optimization.
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Poornima Gupte works as a Senior Software Engineer at IBM India. She has a BE, Computer Science degree from Pune Institute of Computer Technology and MS, Computer Science degree from Binghamton University. She joined IBM in 2012 and has been working on IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM ESS as a developer.
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Vasfi Gucer is an IBM Technical Content Services Project Leader with the Digital Services Group. He has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of systems management, networking hardware, and software. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide about IBM products. His focus has been primarily on cloud computing, including cloud storage technologies for the last 6 years. Vasfi is also an IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist, Project Management Professional (PMP), IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) V2 Manager, and ITIL V3 Expert.
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Nikhil Khandelwal is a senior engineer with the IBM Spectrum Scale development team. He has over 15 years of storage experience on NAS, disk, and tape storage systems. He has led development and worked in various architecture roles. Nikhil currently is a part of the IBM Spectrum Scale client adoption and cloud teams.
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Ravindra Sure works for IBM India as a Senior System Software Engineer. He has worked on developing workload schedulers for High Performance Computers, Parallel File Systems, Computing Cluster Network Management and Parallel Programming. He has strong engineering professional skills in distributed systems, parallel computing, C, C++, Python,shell scripting, MPI, and Linux.
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Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Ann Lund, Matt Lesher
International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center and Austin, TX
International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center and Austin, TX
Steve Duersch, Brian Herr, Nariman Nasef, Aaron S Palazzolo, Richard Rosenthal, Mary Jane Zajac
IBM USA
IBM USA
Tomer Perry
IBM Israel
IBM Israel
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