IBM Spectrum Scale
Enterprises and organizations are creating, analyzing, and keeping more data than ever before. Those that can deliver insights faster while managing rapid infrastructure growth are the leaders in their industry. In delivering those insights, an organization’s underlying storage must support new-era big data and artificial intelligence workloads along with traditional applications while ensuring security, reliability, and high performance.
IBM Spectrum Scale™ meets these challenges as a high-performance solution for managing data at scale with the distinctive ability to perform archive and analytics in place.
Supported Product Versions
Note
The integration is performed and certified on LTS release versions of CipherTrust Manager only. Feature releases support the integration and are covered under technical support but will not be explicitly certified. To know more about CipherTrust Manager release versions, click here.
This integration is validated on the following software versions:
CipherTrust Manager
- CipherTrust Manager 2.3 and higher
IBM Spectrum Scale
- IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.1.1 and higher
Prerequisites
Spectrum Scale communicates with the CipherTrust Manager through KMIP interface. Ensure that the CipherTrust Manager is installed and configured properly. For more details, refer to the Administrator Guide of CipherTrust Manager.
Ensure that IBM Spectrum Scale is installed and configured. For more information, refer to the IBM documentation.
Ensure that the required licenses are activated. For more details, refer to the CipherTrust Manager documentation.
CipherTrust Manager recognizes only registered KMIP clients. Ensure that KMIP client is registered. Refer KMIP client Registration for more details.
