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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

GPFS client support larger memory address space

Currently GPFS client can use upto 1TB address space, but now GPU servers already configured with 2TB memory, and 3T, 4T memory in future. the address space below 1TB might be used by vfio, for nic, gpu passthrough, so GPFS client has very little ...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Add logrotation for cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy

Please add log rotation for the cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy They can get quite large and fill up the available disk space.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Storage Scale and Spectrum Archive: If a pre-migrated or migrated file is deleted, provide a limited window to recover it without having to use Storage Protect

Current documentation states that for a space-managed fileset if you use snapshots it triggers a recall of the data from tape to disk. The University of Michigan was always told this is a limitation in Storage Scale not Spectrum Archive and that t...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Enhancement request to Spectrum Scale event alerting mechanism to allow event correlation

Spectrum Scale has long provided mechanisms to alert about events. In the past, it was common to use callbacks to do that. Today, Scale provides webhooks that can be received by consumers. Also, mmhealth today provides a good source of info about ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

To simplify the deployment of workloads in the cloud, IBM must improve the performance of the Scale command "mmaddnode" to allow for faster spin up/down of resources.

Nodes in the cloud need to be spun up quickly as needed. Currently mmaddnode takes too long to add a significant number of nodes as it sequentially adds nodes to the cluster; not only that, but other commands like mmchlicense, mmchnodeclass, and m...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Provide mechanism to choose whether webhook messages events field may carry an array of events or just a single event

Spectrum Scale is capable of sending webhooks to recipients. These hooks contain information about events and such. According to Scale’s documentation, this is the json payload of such hooks: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.5?topic=...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Prometheus Exporter for zimon metrics

For our compute and Storage systems we are running a monitoring setup based on Prometheus in combination with the Prometheus node exporter and Alert manager. To monitor spectrum Scale health we have some self written scripts collecting metrics. Bu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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