The Swarm Cluster Services (SCS) unifies and centralizes the services and management information needed to install, upgrade, and monitor Swarm storage clusters. Installed on a dedicated node, SCS simplifies the network services and DataCore product installation process for Swarm administrators. 

The SCS infrastructure provides these essential features:

• Required Network Services: Provides network services that are configured to support a Swarm cluster: DHCP, PXE/Network Boot, TFTP, Syslog, and NTP.

• Swarm Configuration Management: Provides the ability to configure and update the cluster and individual chassis as needed. 

• Command-Line Interface: The CLI provides a direct interface to SCS management tasks.

Limitations

There are a few functional limitations of SCS:

• Control of the Swarm SCS Server is limited to CLI access only. No UI support.

• No automated upgrade process from a CSN installation to a SCS installation.

Use Cases

SCS may be used in environments that meet the following requirements:

• Are managed by administrators familiar with running CSN and Swarm

• Have a staging environment with bare-metal storage nodes

• Have Swarm 14 installed