Enhancements:
- Existing Security Group Support
- IBM Storage Scale now supports the use of existing security groups, allowing for enhanced network access control and seamless integration with predefined security policies.
- Existing Key Protect Instance Support
- IBM Storage Scale can now integrate with an existing Key Protect instance in the same region as the Scale cluster.
- Sapphire Rapids (x3 and x3d) Support
- IBM Storage Scale now supports Sapphire Rapids (x3 and x3d) profiles
- Updated the custom image version as there was a bug found on the production related to OpenLdap
- Updated the scale versions from 5.2.1.1 to 5.2.2.1
Offered features:
- Supported Storage Type: Scratch (default), Evaluation, and Persistent
- Supported Block sizes: (256K, 512K, 1M, 2M, 4M, 8M, 16M)
- Maximum number of Storage Nodes: 2-64
- Maximum number of Compute Nodes: 0-64
- Maximum number of Protocol Nodes: 0-32
- Maximum number of AFM Gateway Nodes: 0-16
- Maximum number of Client Nodes: 0-2000
Documentation
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[IBM Storage Scale on IBM Cloud] (https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/storage-scale?topic=storage-scale-about-storage-scale)
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IBM Cloud Tile - [IBM Storage Scale on IBM Cloud Catalog] (https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/content/ibm-spectrum-scale-d722b6b6-8bb5-4506-8f0f-03a5f05a3d6e-global)
Release configuration:
Cloud platform: IBM Cloud
(IBM Cloud Custom Image) Operating Systems: 8.10 (x86_64 architecture)
Terraform version: v1.9.0
Ansible Core version: v2.12.6
IBM Storage Scale version: 5.2.2.1