Planning your IBM Storage Scale deployments

When planning a IBM Storage Scale deployment, you should have a basic understanding of the main parts of the deployment.

Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) prerequisites
Before installing IBM Storage Scale, there are several required RPM files that are needed for IBM Storage Scale support.
Network and virtual machine requirements
Review the network and virtual machine requirements needed for IBM Storage Scale support.
Administrator roles
Several separate administrative roles are responsible for creating, configuring, deploying, and managing the IBM Pattern for IBM Storage Scale.
Running IBM Storage Scale commands
Use the gpfsprod user to run IBM Storage Scale commands.
IBM Storage Scale components
The IBM Storage Scale Pattern includes several components that you can deploy to create a complete IBM Storage Scale solution in your environment.
IBM Storage Scale file systems and file sets
The IBM Pattern for IBM Storage Scale supports the creation of both file systems and file sets.
Securing your IBM Storage Scale pattern
There are different means used to secure access to the IBM Pattern for IBM Storage Scale.
IBM Storage Scale roles associated with deployed middleware
Virtual machines that are created at IBM Storage Scale deployment have a number of roles that are associated with the deployed middleware IBM Spectrum Scale services.
Configuring an active-active IBM Storage Scale deployment
You can deploy a IBM Storage Scale Primary instance and attach a deployed IBM Storage Scale Mirror instance and a IBM Storage Scale Tiebreaker instance to create a highly available active-active IBM Storage Scale configuration.
Configuring an active-passive IBM Storage Scale deployment
You can deploy a IBM Storage Scale Primary instance and attach a deployed IBM Storage Scale Passive instance to create a configuration suitable for disaster recovery.
IBM Storage Scale configurations that run on mixed operating systems
When you create an active-active or an active-passive cluster, IBM Storage Scale allows mixed configurations. For example, you can deploy the mirror node on an IBM Power system, the primary node on an IBM X-Architecture system, and the tiebreaker node on a Linux for Power system. Similarly, you can deploy the IBM Storage Scale clients on different operating systems (OS) than the IBM Storage Scale server cluster.
Preserving IBM Storage Scale volume data
Be aware of the following items so you can preserve the IBM Pattern for IBM Storage Scale volume data.

Parent topic: Administering support for IBM Storage Scale

Related concepts

Deleting IBM Storage Scale instances from the cluster