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TIER T2

Zero-downtime Spectrum Scale 5.2 migration

Workload
Parallel Filesystem Migration
Scale
12PB / 1,200 concurrent users
Service downtime
12 min
01Challenge

The situation

A major Spectrum Scale 4.x → 5.2 upgrade with 1,200 users and zero tolerance for even a single day of downtime.

02Approach

The approach

  1. 01Incremental AFM-based data migration
  2. 023 weeks of parallel operation + metadata re-indexing
  3. 03Preventive disk SMART checks with Luxe Ray
  4. 04Pre-validated rollback scenarios
03Results

Results

Downtime
12 min
Data loss
0
Metadata IOPS improvement
+40%
04Suite Used

Operations automation — Luxe Series products used

  • Luxe Ray

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