IBM Spectrum Symphony editions
IBM® Spectrum Symphony is available in several editions. Product add-ons are optional and serve to enhance the functionality of the Standard and Advanced Editions. Use the edition that best suits your business needs.
Overview
- Developer
- Standard
- Advanced
| Features | Developer | Standard | Advanced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low-latency HPC SOA | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Agile service and task scheduling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic resource orchestration | No | Yes | Yes |
| Standard and custom reporting | No | Yes | Yes |
| Explorer reporting | No | No | Yes |
| Data affinity | No | No | Yes |
| MapReduce framework support | Yes | No | Yes |
| Grid synchronization | No | No | Yes |
| Recursive workload | No | No | Yes |
| Multiple task service (MTS) | No | No | Yes |
| Host factory for cloud bursting | No | No | Yes |
| REST-based client workload submission | No | No | Yes |
| Multicluster management | No | No | Yes |
| YARN integration support | No | No | Yes |
| Docker integration for running IBM Spectrum Symphony service instances (note that deploying a IBM Spectrum Symphony cluster with Docker containers is available on all IBM Spectrum Symphony editions) | No | No | Yes |
| IBM Spectrum Conductor functionality | No | No | Yes |
A Docker image of IBM Spectrum Symphony, hosted on the public Docker repository, is available for you to install and deploy IBM Spectrum Symphony within Docker containers. This Docker image, known as IBM Spectrum Symphony Community Edition, is a free offering that provides the full functionality of IBM Spectrum Symphony Advanced Edition, but only for a cluster of up to 64 cores. It also does not include IBM Support that is tied to licensed software.
Product edition and add-on entitlement
Entitlement (or licensing) of the Standard and Advanced editions is controlled by an encrypted key in an entitlement file that enables a specific product edition and associated features using a common installation package. The entitlement configuration file is verified by the entitlement configuration library to determine which IBM Spectrum Symphony edition and supported features are enabled. The Developer Edition does not require an entitlement configuration file.
- IBM Spectrum Symphony Desktop Harvesting
- IBM Spectrum Symphony GPU Harvesting
- IBM Spectrum Symphony Server and VM Harvesting
How to view entitlement information
You can use the cluster management console or CLI to view entitlement information pertaining to the IBM Spectrum Symphony edition and add-ons in the cluster.
To view entitlement information using the cluster management console, select .
To view entitlement information using the command line, run the egosh entitlement info command.