IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition (ECE) is a high performance scale-out storage for commodity servers. It’s a new software edition of IBM Spectrum Scale family. The first version was released in June 2019 to bring customers the enterprise storage based on commodity servers. ECE provides all the functionality, reliability, scalability, and performance of IBM Spectrum Scale on the customer’s own choice of commodity servers with the added benefit of network-dispersed IBM Spectrum Scale RAID, and all of its features providing data protection, storage efficiency, and the ability to manage storage in hyperscale environments.
This video will highlight the new functions of IBM Spectrum Scale ECE and take you through an installation demonstration.
Here are some supportive links to accompany planning your ECE installation:
The install toolkit will execute the ECE Hardware Readiness tool on each scale-out node before beginning installation. This tool and its documentation can be downloaded from this link:
https://github.com/IBM/SpectrumScale_ECE_OS_READINESS
The IBM Spectrum Scale network readiness tool must also be executed before installation. This tool and its documentation can be downloaded from this link:
https://github.com/IBM/SpectrumScale_NETWORK_READINESS
For more information on IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition, see the product documentation in the IBM Knowledge Center:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_ECE_5.0.3/ibmspectrumscaleece503_welcome.html
For more information on IBM Elastic Storage Server, see:
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/ibm-elastic-storage-server
And for questions about IBM Spectrum Scale in general, see the FAQ with ECE included:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html