Installing Global Data Platform

From the Services page, enable the IBM Fusion Global data platform service.

1. Go to the Services page in the IBM Fusion user interface.
2. In the Available section, click Global data platform tile.
3. In the Global Data Platform page, go through the details and click Install.
   After you enable the Global Data Platform, you can view the service version and health status.

   Table 1. Health states Global Data Platform service

   State	Description
   Healthy	The Running and Ready states for the following items indicate that the service is healthy: All the pods in ibm-spectrum-scale namespace are running. All the pods in ibm-spectrum-scale-csi namespace are running. GPFS Scale service is active on all the pods. The filesystem is mounted on all the nodes.
   Degraded	If any of the following conditions are not met, then the service goes to a degraded state. Any one of the scale core pod statuses is not running per Recovery Group (RG) GPFS service is not active on any one of the pods per RG. If one of the PM collector pods is not running or all containers are not in the ready state. If one of the GUI pods is not running or all containers are not in the ready state.

   From the ellipsis menu, you can download logs and view documentation. After you successfully collect the logs, a success notification gets displayed. The notification disappears automatically after some time.

   If failures occur, go through the downloaded logs to understand the cause of the failure and fix the issue. For more information about service issues in IBM Fusion, see Global Data Platform service install and upgrade issues.

4. Verify Global Data Platform installation.

   Validate Global Data Platform operators, deployments, and pods from the OpenShift management console

   1. Log in to the OpenShift web console.
   2. From the menu navigation, click Operators > Installed Operators.
   3. From the Installed Operators list, click IBM Storage Fusion operator. The Details tab is open by default.
   4. From the menu navigation, click Workloads > Pods.
   5. Check whether the following namespace and its deployment is available:

      ibm-spectrum-scale-operator project

      ibm-spectrum-scale-controller-manager

   6. From the menu navigation, go to Workloads > Pods.
   7. Check whether you can see the following pods:

      ibm-spectrum-scale-operator

      ibm-spectrum-scale-controller-manager

5. Verify Global Data Platform configuration.

   Validate Global Data Platform pods from the OpenShift management console

   1. Log in to the OpenShift web console.
   2. From the menu navigation, go to Workloads > Pods.
   3. Check whether you can see the following pods:

      ibm-spectrum-scale-csi project

      ibm-spectrum-scale-csi-provisioner

      ibm-spectrum-scale-csi-attacher

      ibm-spectrum-scale-csi

      Note: For Global Data Platform version 6.0.0.1, the ibm-spectrum-scale-csi-operator pod is no longer available.

      ibm-spectrum-scale project

      scale-core-pods

      ibm-spectrum-scale-gui-0

      ibm-spectrum-scale-gui-1

      ibm-spectrum-scale-pmcollector-0

      ibm-spectrum-scale-pmcollector-1

   Validate other pods from the CLI

   1. To list all DNS pods, run the OC command:

      ./oc get pods -n ibm-spectrum-scale-dns

      Note: You can see pods under ibm-spectrum-scale-dns only after connecting to FileSystem.
      For example, see the following result:

       
      oc get po -n ibm-spectrum-scale-dns
      NAME            READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
      coredns-4gmrg   1/1     Running   3          7d16h
      coredns-bjpv7   1/1     Running   5          7d16h
      coredns-hnrph   1/1     Running   3          7d16h
      coredns-j4dxq   1/1     Running   3          7d16h
      coredns-ln6gj   1/1     Running   3          7d16h
      coredns-rtfdg   1/1     Running   3          7d16h

      Make sure all the pods are up and running.

   Verify the storage class.

   Note: Ensure that the following storage classes are created.

   oc get sc