Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide |
This guide provides the following information:Product
overview- Overview of IBM Spectrum Scale
- GPFS™ architecture
- Protocols support overview: Integration of protocol access methods with GPFS
- Active File Management
- AFM-based Asynchronous Disaster Recovery (AFM DR)
- Data protection and disaster recovery in IBM
Spectrum Scale
- Introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale GUI
- IBM Spectrum Scale management API
- Introduction to Cloud services
- IBM Spectrum Scale in an OpenStack cloud
deployment
- IBM Spectrum Scale product editions
- IBM Spectrum Scale license designation
- Capacity based licensing
- IBM Spectrum Storage™ Suite
Planning- Planning for GPFS
- Planning for protocols
- Considerations for GPFS applications
- Firewall recommendations
- Planning for cloud services
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Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide |
Installing and upgrading- Steps for establishing and starting your IBM
Spectrum Scale cluster
- Installing IBM Spectrum Scale on Linux nodes and deploying protocols
- Installing IBM Spectrum Scale on AIX® nodes
- Installing IBM Spectrum Scale on Windows nodes
- Installing cloud services on IBM Spectrum Scale nodes
- Installing and configuring IBM Spectrum
Scale management API
- Installing Active File Management
- Installing and upgrading AFM-based Disaster Recovery
- Installing call home
- Migration, coexistence and compatibility
- Steps to permanently uninstall GPFS and/or Protocols
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Administration Guide |
This guide provides the following information:
Configuring- Configuring the GPFS cluster
- Configuring the CES and protocol configuration
- Configuring and tuning your system for GPFS
- Parameters for performance tuning and optimization
- Configuring and tuning your system for Cloud services
- Configuring Active File Management
- Configuring AFM-based DR
- Tuning for Kernel NFS backend on AFM and AFM DR
Administering- Performing GPFS administration tasks
- Verifying network operation with the mmnetverify command
- Managing file systems
- File system format changes between versions of IBM Spectrum Scale
- Managing disks
- Managing protocol services
- Managing protocol user authentication
- Managing protocol data exports
- Managing object storage
- Managing GPFS quotas
- Managing GUI users
- Managing GPFS access control lists
- Considerations for GPFS applications
- Accessing a remote GPFS file system
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Administration Guide |
- Information lifecycle management for IBM Spectrum
Scale
- Creating and maintaining snapshots of file systems
- Creating and managing file clones
- Scale Out Backup and Restore (SOBAR)
- Data Mirroring and Replication
- Implementing a clustered NFS environment on Linux
- Implementing Cluster Export Services
- Identity management on Windows
- Protocols cluster disaster recovery
- File Placement Optimizer
- Encryption
- Managing certificates to secure communications between GUI web server and web browsers
- Securing protocol data
- Cloud services: Transparent cloud tiering and Cloud data sharing
- Highly-available write cache (HAWC)
- Local read-only cache
- Miscellaneous advanced administration
- GUI limitations
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Problem Determination Guide |
This guide provides the following information: Monitoring- Performance monitoring
- Monitoring system health through the IBM Spectrum
Scale GUI
- Monitoring system health by using the mmhealth command
- Monitoring events through callbacks
- Monitoring capacity through GUI
- Monitoring AFM and AFM DR
- GPFS SNMP support
- Monitoring the IBM Spectrum Scale system by
using call home
- Monitoring the health of cloud services
Troubleshooting- Best practices for troubleshooting
- Understanding the system limitations
- Collecting details of the issues
- Managing deadlocks
- Installation and configuration issues
- Upgrade issues
- Network issues
- File system issues
- Disk issues
- Security issues
- Protocol issues
- Disaster recovery issues
- Performance issues
- GUI issues
- AFM issues
- AFM DR issues
- Transparent cloud tiering issues
- Recovery procedures
- Support for troubleshooting
- References
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Command and Programming Reference |
This guide provides the following information: Command
reference- gpfs.snap command
- mmaddcallback command
- mmadddisk command
- mmaddnode command
- mmadquery command
- mmafmconfig command
- mmafmctl command
- mmafmlocal command
- mmapplypolicy command
- mmauth command
- mmbackup command
- mmbackupconfig command
- mmblock command
- mmbuildgpl command
- mmcallhome command
- mmces command
- mmcesdr command
- mmchattr command
- mmchcluster command
- mmchconfig command
- mmchdisk command
- mmcheckquota command
- mmchfileset command
- mmchfs command
- mmchlicense command
- mmchmgr command
- mmchnode command
- mmchnodeclass command
- mmchnsd command
- mmchpolicy command
- mmchpool command
- mmchqos command
- mmclidecode command
- mmclone command
- mmcloudgateway command
- mmcrcluster command
- mmcrfileset command
- mmcrfs command
- mmcrnodeclass command
- mmcrnsd command
- mmcrsnapshot command
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Command and Programming Reference |
- mmdefedquota command
- mmdefquotaoff command
- mmdefquotaon command
- mmdefragfs command
- mmdelacl command
- mmdelcallback command
- mmdeldisk command
- mmdelfileset command
- mmdelfs command
- mmdelnode command
- mmdelnodeclass command
- mmdelnsd command
- mmdelsnapshot command
- mmdf command
- mmdiag command
- mmdsh command
- mmeditacl command
- mmedquota command
- mmexportfs command
- mmfsck command
- mmfsctl command
- mmgetacl command
- mmgetstate command
- mmhadoopctl command
- mmhealth command
- mmimgbackup command
- mmimgrestore command
- mmimportfs command
- mmkeyserv command
- mmlinkfileset command
- mmlsattr command
- mmlscallback command
- mmlscluster command
- mmlsconfig command
- mmlsdisk command
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Command and Programming Reference |
- mmlsfileset command
- mmlsfs command
- mmlslicense command
- mmlsmgr command
- mmlsmount command
- mmlsnodeclass command
- mmlsnsd command
- mmlspolicy command
- mmlspool command
- mmlsqos command
- mmlsquota command
- mmlssnapshot command
- mmmigratefs command
- mmmount command
- mmnetverify command
- mmnfs command
- mmnsddiscover command
- mmobj command
- mmperfmon command
- mmpmon command
- mmprotocoltrace command
- mmpsnap command
- mmputacl command
- mmquotaoff command
- mmquotaon command
- mmremotecluster command
- mmremotefs command
- mmrepquota command
- mmrestoreconfig command
- mmrestorefs command
- mmrestripefile command
- mmrestripefs command
- mmrpldisk command
- mmsdrrestore command
- mmsetquota command
- mmshutdown command
- mmsmb command
- mmsnapdir command
- mmstartup command
- mmtracectl command
- mmumount command
- mmunlinkfileset command
- mmuserauth command
- mmwinservctl command
- spectrumscale command
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Command and Programming Reference |
Programming reference- IBM Spectrum Scale Data Management API for
GPFS information
- GPFS programming interfaces
- GPFS user exits
- IBM Spectrum Scale management API
commands
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Big Data and Analytics Guide |
This guide provides the following information:IBM Spectrum Scale support for Hadoop- HDFS transparency
- Supported IBM Spectrum Scale storage
modes
- Hadoop cluster planning
- Installation and configuration of HDFS transparency
- Application interaction with HDFS transparency
- Upgrading the HDFS Transparency cluster
- Rolling upgrade for HDFS Transparency
- Security
- Advanced features
- Hadoop distribution support
- Limitations and differences from native HDFS
- Problem determination
BigInsights® 4.2.5 and Hortonworks Data
Platform 2.6- Planning
- Hardware requirements
- Preparing the environment
- Preparing a stanza file
- Installation
- Set up
- Installation of software stack
- BigInsights value-add services on IBM Spectrum Scale
- Upgrading software stack
- Migrating from BI IOP to HDP
- Upgrading IBM Spectrum Scale service
MPack
- Upgrading HDFS Transparency
- Upgrading IBM Spectrum Scale file
system
- Upgrading to BI IOP 4.2.5
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Big Data and Analytics Guide |
- Configuration
- Setting up High Availability [HA]
- IBM Spectrum Scale configuration parameter
checklist
- Dual-network deployment
- Manually starting services in Ambari
- Setting up local repository
- Configuring LogSearch
- Setting IBM Spectrum Scale
configuration for BigSQL
- Administration
- IBM Spectrum Scale-FPO deployment
- Ranger
- Kerberos
- Short-circuit read (SSR)
- Disabling short circuit write
- IBM Spectrum Scale service management
- Ambari node management
- Restricting root access
- IBM Spectrum Scale management GUI
- IBM Spectrum Scale versus Native HDFS
- Troubleshooting
- Limitations
- Limitations and information
- FAQ
- General
- Service fails to start
- Service check failures
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