Supported features of cloudkit
Know the different public clouds, operating system versions, IBM Storage Scale features, and cloudkit commands that are supported.
Prerequisites
- Access to Red Hat base repository, a repository created using the local ISO image.
- Ability to read/write into the user home directory.
|
Public cloud |
Support |
Limitations |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Yes |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux® only |
Limited stock options of RHEL versions are available via the cloudkit. Custom images containing any RHEL version supported by base Scale can be pointed via the cloudkit. |
| Google Cloud Platform (GCP) | Yes |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux only |
Limited stock options of RHEL versions are available via the cloudkit. Custom images containing any RHEL version supported by base Scale can be pointed via the cloudkit. |
| IBM Cloud | No | Under consideration for future release. | |
| Microsoft Azure | Yes |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux only |
Limited stock options of RHEL versions are available via the cloudkit. Custom images containing any RHEL version supported by base Scale can be pointed via the cloudkit. |
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| Supported OS | Version | Limitations | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | 8.8, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, and 9.5 | N/A | On-premise physical host or VM only. |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | 9.2 | N/A | Cloud VM only. |
| IBM Storage Scale function | Automatic configuration through cloudkit | Manual operation after cloudkit usage |
|---|---|---|
| Storage cluster creation option, compute cluster creation option, combined storage and compute cluster creation option | Yes | - |
| Remote mount storage cluster to client cluster | Yes | - |
| Remote mount from CNSA to cloudkit created cluster | Prerequisites configured automatically | Yes through CNSA installation |
| Remote mount from Fusion to cloudkit created storage cluster | Prerequisites configured automatically | Yes through Fusion installation |
| Data Management Edition license application | Yes | - |
| Data Access Edition license application | Yes | - |
| Developer Edition license application | Yes | - |
| Erasure Code Edition license application | No (cloudkit not available for ECE) | Not supported |
| Call home | Not supported | Yes through install toolkit or mm command CLI, if desired |
| Performance Data collection | Yes | - |
| Storage cluster encryption | Yes (Encryption at Rest) | Yes through mm command CLI and manually created key server supported by
IBM
Storage Scale |
| Quotas | - | Yes through mm command CLI |
| ACLs | - | Yes through mm command CLI |
| ILM | No (single pool configured) | Not supported as only a single pool is configured |
| File clones | - | Yes through mm command CLI |
| Snapshots | - | Yes through mm command CLI |
| CSI volume snapshot | - | Yes through CSI |
| GUI | Yes | - |
| REST-API server | Yes (as part of GUI) | - |
| CSI | - | Yes, with manual setup through CSI documentation, prerequisites of vanilla K8s (AKS, EKS, GKE are not supported), prerequisites of IBM Storage Scale CSI, and understanding of CSI networking requirements. |
| File Audit Logging | - | Yes through mm command CLI |
| Clustered watch folder | - | Yes through mm command CLI |
| CES protocols | Yes | Yes, on AWS |
| AFM | Yes | Yes, with manual setup as AFM cache through the cloud site |
| AFM-COS | Yes | AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure |
| AFM-DR | Yes | Yes through mm command CLI |
| AWS protocol | Yes | - |
| Compression | - | Not supported |
| GPU Direct storage | - | Not supported |
| Scale up (nodes) | No | Not supported |
| Scale up CNSA compute cluster | - | Supported through CNSA independent of storage cluster and cloudkit |
| Scale up (file system capacity) | No | Not supported |
| Scale down (nodes) | No | Not supported |
| Scale down (file system capacity) | No | Not supported |
| Scale out (adding new nodes) | Yes | - |
| Usage | Feature | Support | Limitations | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cloudkit create repository | Creates an AWS s3 bucket/GCP Artifact Registory/Azure Blob with scale/zimon RPMs static web-hosting | Yes | Repository scope is limited to the target region. | |
| cloudkit create image | Creates an IBM Storage Scale image by using a repository | Yes | As base image, you can use a stock or custom image of AMI/GCP operating system or an Azure image. | |
| cloudkit create network | Creates a virtual private cloud or a virtual network | Yes | ||
| cloudkit create dns | Creates a DNS domain | Yes | ||
| cloudkit create cluster | Creates an IBM Storage Scale cluster | Yes | Can create storage only cluster, compute only cluster, and combined storage and compute cluster. | |
| cloudkit grant filesystem | Remote mount filesystem from storage to compute cluster | Yes | One remote mount relation per compute. | |
| cloudkit edit cluster | Scales out an IBM Storage Scale cloud cluster | Yes | ||
| cloudkit upgrade cluster | Updates an IBM Storage Scale cluster | Yes | Only AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure are supported. | |
| cloudkit setup caching | Configures the AFM relationship from a local IBM Storage Scale cluster to a remote cluster or cloud object storage | Yes | Only AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure are supported. |