IBM Spectrum Scale on the AWS Cloud

Spectrum Scale version 4.2.3-1

IAM User Policy:

• Create IAM user account which can satisfy all access to deploy IBM Spectrum Scale on AWS. Please follow https://developer.ibm.com/storage/2017/10/30/iam-user-deploy-ibm-spectrum-scale-aws/ link to create IAM user account and attach SpectrumScale policy.

Deployment options:

• Deployment of IBM Spectrum Scale into a new VPC (end-to-end deployment) builds a new VPC with public and private subnets, and then deploys IBM Spectrum Scale into that infrastructure.
• Deployment of IBM Spectrum Scale into an existing VPC provisions IBM Spectrum Scale into your existing infrastructure.

Template Changes

• Added Master template (Create VPC and Bastion Enviornment)

  • Creates VPC using QuickStart Scaleable VPC template https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-aws-vpc
  • Creates Bastion host enviornment using QuickStart template as dependency https://github.com/aws-quickstart/quickstart-linux-bastion

• Workload Template

• Added CloudWatch logs and alerts for Spectrum Scale server and compute nodes recovery.

• Added Spectrum Scale SNS Topic

Deployment steps:

• Sign up for an AWS account at http://aws.amazon.com, select a region, and create a key pair and one S3 bucket.

• In the AWS CloudFormation console, launch one of the following templates from the S3 URL to build a new stack:

  • ibm-spectrum-scale-master.template (to deploy and configure Spectrum Scale cluster into a new VPC)
  • ibm-spectrum-scale.template (to deploy and configure spectrum scale cluster into your existing VPC)

  For detailed deployment and configuration instructions, see the Quick Start deployment guide.

blog: https://developer.ibm.com/storage/2017/09/18/deploy-ibm-spectrum-scale-on-aws-quick-start/