This is an easy deployment method as well as a cost effective way to use IBM Storage Scale software defined storage. The data storage provided in this offering is intended for clients seeking a resilient, performance oriented, storage platform including current Azure HPC, AI / ML clients as well as those moving Hadoop workloads to the cloud. There are three levels of predefined performance categories as well as storage cluster capacities for both of the term lengths in this offer. The deployment of these clusters has been optimized to give you a fast easy way to create the IBM Storage Scale environment. Also included in the offer is the ability to automatically tier data, based on how often data is accessed or aged, to lower cost storage tiers. Data will be automatically moved to the lower tier and will be promoted to a higher tier should the data become "hot".