Installing and upgrading
- Steps to establishing and starting your IBM Spectrum Scale cluster
There are several steps you must perform to establish and start your IBM Spectrum Scale™ cluster. This topic provides the information you need for performing those steps. - Installing IBM Spectrum Scale on Linux nodes and deploying protocols
Use this information for installing IBM Spectrum Scale on Linux nodes and deploying protocols. - Installing IBM Spectrum Scale on AIX nodes
There are three steps for installing GPFS™ on AIX® nodes. - Installing IBM Spectrum Scale on Windows nodes
There are several steps for installing GPFS on Windows nodes. The information in this topic points you to the detailed steps. - Installing cloud services on IBM Spectrum Scale nodes
This topic describes how to prepare for the installation of the cloud services . - Installing and configuring IBM Spectrum Scale management API
The IBM Spectrum Scale management API implementation is based on the IBM Spectrum Scale GUI stack. Installation and configuration of GUI sets up the API infrastructure. That is, you do not need to perform any API-specific deployment procedures. - Installing Active File Management
The following topics describe how to install Active File Management. - Installing and upgrading AFM-based Disaster Recovery
The primary and the secondary are two separate operational clusters separated from each other through LAN or WAN. AFM DR functions are available in Advanced Edition of IBM Spectrum Scale. All nodes in both the primary and secondary clusters must be running the Advanced Edition. - Installing call home
The call home feature collects files, logs, traces, and details of certain system health events from different nodes and services. These details are shared with the IBM® support center for monitoring and problem determination. - Migration, coexistence and compatibility
To migrate to a newer version of IBM Spectrum Scale, first consider the version that you are migrating from and then consider coexistence and compatibility issues. - Steps to permanently uninstall GPFS and/or Protocols
GPFS maintains a number of files that contain configuration and file system related data. Since these files are critical for the proper functioning of GPFS and must be preserved across releases, they are not automatically removed when you uninstall GPFS.