Deployment model

A deployment model must be considered from two levels: IBM Storage Scale level and HDFS Transparency level.

From IBM Storage Scale level, the following two deployment models are available:
  • Remote mount mode
  • Single cluster mode
From HDFS Transparency level, the following two deployment models are available:
  • All Hadoop nodes as IBM Storage Scale nodes
  • Limited Hadoop nodes as IBM Storage Scale nodes
Note: Hadoop services or HDFS Transparency cannot be co-located with the IBM Storage Scale System management server, I/O nodes, or ECE nodes.