IBM Storage Scale: Block Storage and High Performance File Access

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IBM Redbooks, Dec 15, 2025 - Computers - 41 pages

This Redpaper describes a high performance file and block access solution using IBM® Storage
Virtualize and IBM Storage Scale to provide file access interfaces suited for diverse workloads—
traditional, cloud-era, and emerging (example: SAP, web applications, genome analysis). It offers a step-
by-step guide for implementation engineers to integrate IBM FlashSystem® and legacy IBM Storwize® for
block storage, paired with IBM Storage Scale for Network File System (NFS) file access.

This solution is tailored for small and medium businesses with small storage capacities and targeted for
IBM FlashSystem customers who primarily need block storage with file access. We plan to promote this
solution primarily through IBM business partners, providing customers with an integrated end-to-end
solution. It is not intended for NAS, Citrix, or home directory use cases.

 

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TitleIBM Storage Scale: Block Storage and High Performance File Access
AuthorsSarvesh Patel, Rajsekhar Bharali, Abhishek Jain, Kedar Karmarkar, Chris Maestas, Rajan Mishra, Muthu Muthiahm, Vijay Patidar, Mangesh Shirke, IBM Redbooks
PublisherIBM Redbooks, 2025
ISBN0738462357, 9780738462356
Length41 pages
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Computers / System Administration / Storage & Retrieval
  
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