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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Ability to limit io per user for gpfs fs for a node/server

Client need the ability to impose restriction on IO that a user can open on a compute server via cgroup or any other method. They currently have cpu and ram limit per user but users seem to overload io request that retards system responds.
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Add offical Support for s3A semantics in CES-S3 Protocol

Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Network resiliency enhancement - need mechanism for prioritizing control traffic over data traffic via QOS/PFC when RDMA is not enabled.

In a heavy workload situations, some clients are removed from the cluster as peer nodes are not able to communicate as heart-beat/control traffic stuck behind data traffic. Also explore, a dedicated VLAN(s) option for Control and Data traffic.
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Adding Enhancment on Measurement Monitoring on level of Fileset quota

Because in our company GPFS structure based on three or four filesystem like /production & /test and we created million of fileset based on project name but unfortunately some of these filesets reach maximum quota 100% and application down bec...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Scale ECE - optimize the efficiency of swapd processing, and ensure consistency in file access

Current Issue: A directory A is created on GPFS Client 1. Then on Client 2, directory A is accessed and a subdirectory B is created inside it. If directory A is subsequently deleted and recreated on GPFS Client 1, attempting to create subdirectory...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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