RSS
Логотип
Баннер в шапке 1
Баннер в шапке 2

IBM Spectrum Scale

Product
Developers: IBM
Last Release Date: 2016/12/12
Technology: IaaS - Infrastructure as service,  DWH,  Data processing centers - technologies for DPC

For March 15, 2017 IBM Spectrum Scale is technology for management of the data warehouse with support of horizontal scaling. A system forms a basis of the unified approach to support of virtualization, an analytical environment, work with files and objects.

IBM Spectrum Scale supports single name space during the work with data and serves as the command center equipped with the graphic user interface (GUI). Politicians of storage, transparent for end users, do possible compression and multilevel data storage on tape drives or in a cloud.

Multilevel data storage on high-speed carriers, including server a cache memory is allowed. Placement of data taking into account heatcards of their use reduces delays and increases solution performance. Intellectual caching of the data which are stored on remote platforms guarantees the high performance of a read and write at data access. The Active File Management (AFM) technology does geographically remote storages comparable on availability with local.

IBM Spectrum Scale is a part of software-defined data warehouses and is delivered in several options:

  • software solution: works practically at all hardware platforms and supports practically all devices for block data storage. IBM Spectrum Scale works at Linux, AIX and Windows; support of Linux on the IBM z System platform is announced.
  • integrated solution of IBM Elastic Storage Server: IBM Elastic Storage Server is the optimized solution for data storage integrating in itself the equipment of IBM and software of Spectrum Scale. Elastic Storage Server (ESS) provides the level of readiness, reliability and integrity, uses a number of technologies, including IBM Spectrum Scale RAID.
  • cloud service: the solution IBM Spectrum Scale provided as the service provides scalability of storage and the integrated data management for management of large volumes of data and files in the IBM Softlayer cloud environments.


Specific Features

  • consolidation of data warehouses for support of the traditional file and other workloads necessary for use of objects, Hadoop and analytics
  • level of operational and cost efficiency – a repeated gain of performance without replacement of the equipment
  • expense reduction on archive data storage using cognitive automation and special the politician
  • performance improvement of applications as a result of horizontal scaling and application a flash memory
  • support of joint work and general access to resources from the working groups of specialists
  • transparent data movement on the necessary level of storage – in a cloud object system locally or in a public cloud.

Functionality Properties
Производительность и масштабируемость
  • The solution IBM Spectrum Scale is intended for support of the applications using large volumes of data (for example, repositories of content, the systems of technical calculations and the analysis of Big Data). The solution supports scaling to  more than one billion petabyte of data with capacity in  hundreds of gigabytes per second (GB / c).
  • The local cache of IBM Spectrum Scale can be placed in a flash memory or on the inexpensive solid state drives installed directly in the client IBM Spectrum Scale nodes. These nodes give a sixfold gain of performance of input-output, reducing waiting time of data the processor and reducing a total load on network resources and a storage system
Прозрачное многоуровневое хранение данных в облаке
  • IBM Spectrum Scale is able to move data to the cloud storages of objects placed locally or available  in the form of service from suppliers of public clouds.  As a result total ownership cost data decreases and  there is possible payment after delivery of resource consumption, offered by a cloud in the necessary quantity.
Administration simplification
  • The new graphic user interface intended for the solution of standard administration tasks accelerates selection of resources, setup and monitoring of a cluster of IBM Spectrum Scale. It increases labor productivity of administrators and simplifies deployment of the new systems.
  •  The solution IBM Spectrum Scale contains the built-in means  of IBM Spectrum Control serving for monitoring of several  IBM Spectrum Scale systems at the same time and also other data warehouses. The usual interface increases labor productivity of employees, saving time and money.
Совместное использование файлов на глобальном уровне с помощью технологии активного управления файлами (AFM)
  • IBM Spectrum Scale guarantees a small delay time at data access from any place in the world, thanks to technology of distributed caching of the disks AFM. AFM expands a global namespace of IBM Spectrum Scale, covering geographically remote locations. Using this technology the high performance of a read and write is reached in the conditions of automatic control of namespace, and irrespective of location of disks.
Стоимостно-эффективное управление жизненным циклом информации (ILM)
  • The solution IBM Spectrum Scale expands abilities to manage with lifecycle of information, considerably cutting down expenses on data management by creation of multilevel storage, including use of tape drives. Having involved the developed automation equipment on a basis the politician and management tools multilevel storage, to the organizations can create the optimized pools of multilevel storage, having grouped devices (a flash memory, solid-state or normal hard drives, tape drives) in the principle of performance, locality of placement or costs.
Комплексная доступность, надежность и целостность данных
  • The solution IBM Spectrum Scale serves as guarantee of scalability, high availability and reliability of a system, eliminating uniform points of failure (SPOF) in large-scale infrastructures of data storage. Administrators can customize the file system so that it automatically remained available  in case of refusal a disk or the server. IBM Spectrum Scale can be configured for automatic recovery after failures of a node, the data warehouse and other elements of infrastructure.
Встроенное шифрование и безопасное удаление
  • IBM Spectrum Scale provides protection and safe removal of the stored data. Means of enciphering of IBM Spectrum Scale protect the security systems given from violation, unauthorized access, loss, theft and incorrect destruction. Cryptographic erasing – an easy, fast and  safe way of removal of data.
Хранилище объектов и Openstack
  • The solution IBM Spectrum Scale supports modern protocols of work with data warehouses – OpenStack Swift and   Amazon S3. Thanks to it architects of public, private and hybrid clouds can use possibilities of the modern software-defined data warehouse with  ample opportunities of scaling.  The solution IBM Spectrum Scale unifies images of virtual machines, block devices, objects and files within single name space irrespective of the location of data.
Синхронное и асинхронное аварийное восстановление
  • The guaranteed survival of data at failures
Поддержка широкого набора протоколов доступа
  • Native support of several protocols of access: NFS versions 3.0 and v4.0, SMB versions 2.0 and 3.0; OpenStack Swift and Amazon S3
  • Compliance of POSIX
Сжатие на основе политик
  • Economy of space of storage and optimization of use of resources by compression only of those data for which it is useful
Качество обслуживания
  • Resource consumption regulation by background tasks that users received more input-output operations per second (IOPS)


Specifications

Support of operating systems IBM AIX; Linux: Red Hat, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server; Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows 7; IBM z Systems
The supported equipment Архитектура x86: процессоры Intel EM64T или AMD Opteron, не менее 1 ГБ оперативной памяти Архитектура IBM POWER:
AIX v6.1 or v7.1, Linux on POWER3 (at least), not less than 1 GB of memory; z Systems (only Linux)
The maximum quantity of files in the file system 264 (9 квинтиллионов) файлов на файловую систему
Maximum size of the file system 299 байт
Minimum and maximum quantity of nodes 1 – 16,384
Protocols POSIX, GPFS, NFS v4.0, SMB v3.0 Большие данные и аналитика:

Hadoop MapReduce Cloud environment:

OpenStack Cinder (blocks), OpenStack Swift (objects), S3  (objects)
Cloud object storage IBM Cloud Storage System (Cleversafe), Amazon S3, IBM SoftLayer Native Object, а также поставщики услуг, поддерживающие OpenStack Swift и Amazon S3
Источник — «https://tadviser.com/index.php/Product:IBM_Spectrum_Scale»

Шестерня

The site content is translated by machine translation software powered by PROMT. The machine-translated articles are not always perfect and may contain errors in vocabulary, syntax or grammar. Read original article

If you find inaccuracies or errors in the results of machine translation, please write to editor@tadviser.ru. We will make every effort to correct them as soon as possible.

How to create a "smart plant": Key characteristics of a modern digital enterprise
Model Studio CS: How to use BIM to give new impetus to the development of the fuel and energy complex