Concepts, Planning, and Installation Guide |
This guide provides information about the following
sections: Product overview- IBM Spectrum Scale product editions
- IBM Spectrum Scale license designation
- Overview of GPFS™
- GPFS architecture
- Protocols support overview: Integration of protocol access methods with GPFS
- Active File Management
- AFM-based Asynchronous Disaster Recovery (AFM DR)
- Introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale GUI
- Introduction to Transparent Cloud Tiering
- IBM Spectrum Scale in an OpenStack cloud deployment
Planning- Planning for GPFS
- Planning for protocols
- Considerations for GPFS applications
- Firewall recommendations
- Planning for Transparent Cloud Tiering
Installing and upgrading- Steps to establishing and starting your GPFS 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 Transparent Cloud Tiering on IBM Spectrum Scale nodes
- Installing Active File Management
- Installing AFM-based Disaster Recovery
- Migration, coexistence and compatibility
- Steps to permanently uninstall GPFS and/or Protocols
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Administration Guide |
This guide provides information about the following
sections: 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 Transparent Cloud Tiering
- Configuring Active File Management
- Configuring AFM-based DR
- Tuning for kNFS backend on AFM and AFM DR
Administering- Performing GPFS administration tasks
- Managing file systems
- File system format changes between versions of GPFS
- Managing disks
- Managing protocol services
- Managing protocol user authentication
- Managing protocol data exports
- Managing object storage
- Managing GPFS quotas
- Managing GUI administrators
- Managing GPFS access control lists
- Considerations for GPFS applications
- Accessing a remote GPFS file system
- 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
- Hadoop support for IBM Spectrum Scale
- Encryption
- Managing certificates to secure communications between GUI web
server and web browsers
- Securing protocol data
- Transparent Cloud Tiering
- Highly-available write cache (HAWC)
- Local read-only cache
- Miscellaneous advanced administration topics
- GUI limitations
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Problem Determination Guide |
This guide provides information about the following
sections: Monitoring- Performance monitoring
- Monitoring system health through the IBM Spectrum Scale GUI
- Monitoring system health using the mmhealth command
- Monitoring events through callbacks
- Monitoring AFM
- Monitoring AFM DR
- GPFS SNMP support
- Monitoring the IBM Spectrum Scale system remotely by using call home
- Monitoring the health of Transparent Cloud Tiering service
Troubleshooting- Best practices for troubleshooting
- Understanding the system limitations
- Collecting details of the issues
- Managing deadlocks
- Installation and configuration 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 information about the following
sections:
Programming reference- IBM Spectrum Scale Data Management API for GPFS information
- GPFS programming interfaces
- GPFS user exits
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