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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

Is it possible to enable greater than 512 kNFS threads in CNFS? Ideally, the client would like to set the thread count to a max of 4096 (up from the 512 limit).

MLP has requested that IBM enable the ability to test with more than 512 kNFS threads in CNFS due to performance issues observed in their environment. Specifically, MLP wants to increase the thread count to 2048 or 4096. MLP is aware that CNFS is ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Implement mmlsmgr/mmlsmount reversion to the display of short hostnames after nodes with a different domain are removed from a GPFS cluster

When a node with a different DNS domain is added to a GPFS cluster (or a remote cluster mounting a filesystem from an NSD cluster), mmlsmgr and mmlsmount output shows hosts with the trailing domain (up to the point of similarity). This makes sense...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Scale Storage Native Driver for Mainframe zOS

We are trying to get access to the mainframe storage on the midrange end to allow Data and AI tools like Content Aware Storage and Watson Knowledge Catalog. Following are the gaps: 1. There is no native driver for zOS. Current support is limited t...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Support NFS Ganesha Preserve_Unlinked feature

Prevent NFS "silly rename" behaviour
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Set multiple file systems to maintenance mode at the same time with --maintenance-mode yes

We have limited time when taking maintenance downtimes and we need to get file system into maintenance mode as quickly as possible. It can take a long time to get file systems into maintenance-mode, often having to wait for very long internal moun...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Scale CSI & CNSA should be package with base scale distribution

IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver and IBM Storage Scale Container Native are add-on interfaces that are included in the base licensing for IBM Storage Scale. They are currently only available via external repositories that requi...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

mmbackup: Backup extended acls separately to eliminate "updated" backup

mmbackup should generate a database of file/dir extended acls and back up such database so that TSM can be run with the SKIPACL option enabled. When the only change to a file is its extended acl or permissions, it is a waste of resources having to...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)

Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Able to monitor and set maintenance mode on external services such as GKLM servers or other dependencies in GPFS GUI and via CLI/REST-API.

If you have two or more GKLM servers connected to your IBM Storage Scale cluster there is no way to via GPFS GUI disable warnings from GKLM servers (At least not in a user friendly way that I know about) . So when you do maintenance on one of your...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

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