IBM Storage Scale Management Interface Node

IBM Storage Scale Management Interface supports both GUI and RESTful API access to an IBM Storage Scale cluster.

IBM Storage Scale Management Interface can run on 1 or more dedicated nodes within the cluster. These nodes run processes and databases to monitor the cluster. The GUI consumes extra memory as well as internal hard drive space for state databases. The GUI node might also run scheduled tasks to monitor the health and utilization of the cluster. It is best to not run any compute or memory-intensive applications on the GUI node, as the GUI might impact the performance of these applications. In many cases, the nodes that run the management interface are also used as the call home server and the performance monitoring collector. Management interface nodes are required to be separate from the servers that provide storage for IBM Storage Scale RAID.