[gpfsug-discuss] storage-scale-object - summary

[Ulf Troppens]

Hi List,

more details can be shared under NDA. Please ask your IBM sales rep to contact me.
Or meet me at the German User meeting this Wednesday.

Best,
Ulf

Ulf Troppens
Product Manager - IBM Storage for Data and AI, Data-Intensive Workflows

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Hi all, there was a couple of very good concerns, questions and statements already. I’d like to summarize my very personal understanding – not necessarily officially speaking for my employer IBM. Be invited to reach out to IBM Client Engineering
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Hi all,

there was a couple of very good concerns, questions and statements already. I’d like to summarize my very personal understanding – not necessarily officially speaking for my employer IBM.
Be invited to reach out to IBM Client Engineering (a presales invest by IBM) if you have a need to discuss, demo or evaluate in connection to an active Opportunity ( i know, but that’s the rules of engagement )


  *   Swift S3 is complex to maintain, as said by Christoph Martin. IBM supports multiple stacks for multiple products. That along with currency the main reason to move away



  *   For alternatives a focus on ‘unified access via file and s3’ was set, so the feature set required is something (for you as a customer) to evaluate.


  *   You can find references on our future architecture publicly available, its based on the same noobaa stack that is used in RedHat ODF MCG.
I would like to recommend the following blog of my IBM CE peer Nils Haustein:

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/nils-haustein1/2024/02/21/s3-tiering-to-tape-with-noobaa-part-1-introduction

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/nils-haustein1/2024/02/21/s3-tiering-to-tape-with-noobaa-part-2-deployment

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/nils-haustein1/2024/02/26/s3-tiering-to-tape-with-noobaa-part-3-tiering



  *   Some might consider release timing, .. But here is the plan, thanks for already outlining, Renar!
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=summary-changes

     *   IBM Storage Scale 5.1.8 is the last release that has CES Swift Object protocol.
     *   IBM Storage Scale 5.1.9 [EUS release] will tolerate the update of a CES node from IBM Storage Scale 5.1.8 - so if you have it, you can keep it
     *   I’m expecting TechPreview and GA within the next two releases – technical details as per above blog.

I hope this helps to clarify IBM’s plan of record. I’d like to reinvite you to reach out to IBM (via IBM Sales / directly) if you’d like to follow-up.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards

Alexander Saupp
Senior Technology Engineer | IBM Client Engineering EMEA | Software Defined Storage
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