Spectrum Scale file systems federation

You can federate two IBM Spectrum Scale™ file systems from different clusters or from the same cluster.

Irrespective of the mode that you select, configure one HDFS transparency cluster for each IBM Spectrum Scale file system, and then federate the two HDFS transparency clusters together.

Federate two Spectrum Scale file systems from different clusters.

Federate two Spectrum Scale file systems from the same cluster.

To federate two file systems from the same cluster, select nodes that can provide HDFS transparency services for the first file system and the second file system separately.