IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS)

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Infrastructure planning and considerations

This chapter provides considerations for the storage and network infrastructure you can use with IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) and also contains planning information for deploying an IBM Spectrum Scale cluster.

This chapter contains the followings topics:

•IBM Spectrum Scale cluster topologies

•Network design

•Storage design

•IBM Spectrum Scale supported platforms

•Security considerations for IBM Spectrum Scale clusters

•IBM Spectrum Scale configuration planning

2.1 IBM Spectrum Scale cluster topologies ...

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