IBM Spectrum Scale

This section gives a brief introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Storage Enabler for Containers.

IBM Spectrum Scale is a cluster file system that provides concurrent access to a single file system or set of file systems from multiple nodes. The nodes can be SAN-attached, network-attached, a mixture of SAN-attached and network-attached, or in a shared-nothing cluster configuration. This enables high performance access to this common set of data to support a scale-out solution or to provide a high-availability platform.

IBM Spectrum Scale has many features beyond common data access, including data replication, policy based storage management, and multi-site operations. You can create a cluster of AIX® nodes, Linux nodes, Windows server nodes, or a mix of all three.

IBM® Storage Enabler for Containers allows IBM Spectrum Scale to be used as a source for persistent volumes intended for stateful application running in Kubernetes clusters.

Note: Currently, not all platform features are fully functional, when IBM Spectrum Scale is deployed with IBM Storage Enabler for Containers.