Spectrum Scale and Elastic Storage System
Customer Workshop Introduction
Advanced Technology Group – Storage
IBM
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Our purposes
Spectrum Scale is abstract! Our purpose: Make Spectrum Scale concrete and
• What does a file system “look like”? remove some of its mysteriousness, through:
1. Deep sessions explaining (and demonstrating)
Spectrum Scale and some of its advanced features
2. Hand-on labs to work with Spectrum Scale
3. Opportunities to engage subject-matter experts to
get answers to your questions
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Our teaching team
• Stieg Klein
• Isom Crawford, PhD
• Lindsay Todd, PhD
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Agenda
Wednesday, September 14 Thursday, September 15
Arrive, Continental breakfast, welcome, introductions,
Arrive, Continental breakfast, reconvene
8:30 AM administrivia 8:30 AM
Spectrum Scale Overview
9:00 AM 9:00 AM Networking
Spectrum Scale Principles of Operation – part 1
9:45 AM 9:50 AM Cluster Export Services
Break
10:15 AM 10:20 AM Break
Spectrum Scale Principles of Operation – part 2
10:25 AM 10:35 AM Replication Strategies
Elastic Storage System concepts
11:00 AM 11:30 AM Lunch and lab time
Introduction to using labs
11:50 AM 1:00 PM Erasure Code Edition
Lunch and lab time
12:05 PM 1:20 PM Cloud services
GUI demo, monitoring, and health
1:30 PM 2:05 PM Break / lab time
Multi-cluster: theory and best practices
2:15 PM 3:20 PM Container strategies
Break
3:00 PM 4:05-5:00 PM Other topics and wrap-up
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
3:15 PM
Lab time
4:00-5:00 PM
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Not covered…
We can’t cover everything! Sadly, not yet covered in depth:
• File/Object Unification
Ask questions! • Watch folders
• File Audit Logging
Our goal is to get answers to your questions, even if it • Callbacks
isn’t one of the topics we cover in depth! • RESTful API
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Further resources
IBM Documentation (Spectrum Scale) – https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale
IBM Documentation (Elastic Storage System) – https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ess
Spectrum Scale FAQ – https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale?topic=STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html
Spectrum Scale User Group – https://www.spectrumscale.org/
Spectrum Scale Resource Collection (a Box folder) – https://ibm.box.com/v/Spectrum-Scale-Resources
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Thank you!
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