It makes our file system sharing a lot easier, even across different continents. We have had file systems shared across different continents with no performance degradation.
This is probably the biggest challenge, getting everything upgraded, because it just takes time. We wish it was a faster solution to be able to do everything at once, but you have do each node individually. The more nodes, the longer it takes.
Senior Unix Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 6, 2018
Making it a little easier to add bad file sets would help. There is a transition to how you add storage and how you add a file set, so making that a little smoother would probably be my recommendation.
It would be helpful if there was a graphical user interface that could walk you through the deployment process. The instructions surrounding setup aren't the best. They need to be more step-by-step.
Client Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 21, 2018
We do have some issues where Spectrum Scale does not work as expected. We have seen our Spectrum Scale servers go down unexpectedly, but because we have a cluster, it does not take out the entire organization.
