Implementation Guide for IBM Elastic Storage System 3000

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Use cases

This chapter discusses ESS 3000 use cases. It includes the following topics:

•4.1, “Metadata and High Speed Data Tiering” on page 58

•4.2, “Database use cases” on page 58

•4.3, “Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)” on page 62

•4.4, “Other uses cases” on page 62

4.1 Metadata and High Speed Data Tiering

Metadata generally refers to data about data, and in the context of IBM Spectrum Scale metadata refers to various on-disk data structures that are necessary to manage user data. Note that directory entries and inodes are ...

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