IBM Storage Scale Erasure Code Edition hardware requirements

This document describes the requirements for storage hardware, including network requirements that can be used with IBM Storage Scale Erasure Code Edition.

IBM Storage Scale Erasure Code Edition provides the best performance that a hardware platform can provide. Hardware requirements are also defined by the performance requirements of the customer’s use case. For example, the minimum network requirement of 25 Gbps might work for some use cases, but 100 Gbps Ethernet or InfiniBand might be needed to achieve performance goals for high-performance workloads.

In IBM Storage Scale Erasure Code Edition, the customer’s responsibility is to manage the operating system, firmware, and device driver software on each server. This guide is meant to be a starting point in system sizing and not a substitute for performance engineering and tuning for each customer environment and use case.