Limitations
- IBM Storage Scale container native currently supports remote mount of the file system and local file system in a shared nothing configuration
- Deployment of IBM Storage Scale pods on master nodes is not supported except for "compact" Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
- Deployment of IBM Storage Scale pods on RHEL worker nodes is not supported.
- Deployment of IBM Storage Scale pods on nodes with ARM CPUs is not supported.
- Single node Red Hat OpenShift clusters are not supported.
Scalability constraints
Overall
| Description | Max supported |
|---|---|
| Number of worker nodes | 128 |
Remote file system
| Description | Max supported |
|---|---|
| Number of remote clusters | 4 |
| Number of remote file systems | 16 |
Local file system
| Description | Max supported |
|---|---|
| Number of local file systems | 3 |
| Number of storage nodes | 48 |
| Maximum disk size | 4 TiB |
| Number of disks per local file system | 128 |
| Number of disks for all local file systems | 128 |
| Maximum raw file system capacity | 384 TiB |
| Maximum usable file system capacity | 128 TiB |