ECM WAS cluster with Spectrum Scale

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IBM Spectrum Scale is a scalable, high-performance data and file management solution (based upon IBM® General Parallel File System or GPFS).

The Part 1 white paper (the single ECM node study) proved that Spectrum Scale can compete with a high performance filesystem such as XFS.

When shared amongst all nodes in the ECM WAS cluster, the FileNet® Advanced File Storage Area had to reside on a parallel filesystem. For this reason, the File Storage Area resided on the Spectrum Scale filesystem configured as either SD or NSD.

This topic discusses the Spectrum Scale setup in more detail in relation to the ECM WAS cluster.

This example shows the mounted FileNet File Storage Area on a Spectrum Scale filesystem (type gpfs). The File Storage Area was 600 GiB large and was already populated with some ECM content data.

# df -hT
Filesystem                          Type   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
...
/dev/FSData                         gpfs   600G  337G  264G  57% /data/FSData