Scaling Netezza Performance Server for Cloud Pak for Data

Deployment options: Netezza Performance Server for Cloud Pak for Data

Netezza Performance Server for Cloud Pak for Data offers the ability to independently scale your computing and storage as needed.

With version 11.2.0.0, you can initiate scaling through:
  • The service instance details page in the IBM Cloud Pak for Data web console.
  • The command line by using nz.

Types of scaling

Computing
  • Increase the VPC count.
  • Decrease the VPC count.
In most cases, changing the VPC count changes the number of SPUs.

Computing scaling introduces a system downtime of around 10 minutes.

Version 11.2.0.0 (and later) supports computing scaling within a clip level. You can increase or decrease the VPC counts within the clip level. Storage scaling is absolutely independent of computing and fully online.

For example, you can scale an 18 VPC system to a 60 VPC directly or in increments.

Storage
  • Increase storage capacity.

    All data slices are uniformly increased.