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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Improvement of mmnetverify for remote mounted filesystems

mmnetverify seems to be created with the assumption that everyone is using adminMode=allToAll, and is using passwordless ssh for many of it's checks. This is problematic both to local cluster with adminMode=central (no passwordless ssh from client...
2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Improve fragment allocation when very large number of NSDs and allocation regions.

Current fragment allocation behavior for small files or shrink-to-fit operation looks only on the region's local list. If nothing fits it allocates a full block for the small file. This causes a problem when billions of small files are created in ...
8 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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...
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option

Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option so so that binds() on sockets meant to be used for a subsequent connect() do not require that there's a totally unused port in the ephemeral port range for the source IP. We got an assert on...
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Enhance Scale ansible toolkit to deploy zimonGrafana Bridge

Eliminate manual effort to add zimonGrafana Bridge
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Transparent recall of archived VMware VMs from tape via vMotion should work without failure.

VMware Datastore via NFS is storing data on Scale disk with Storage archive to migrate archived vmdks to tape. The recall process is triggered by a vMotion process but it fails because the files are not recalled yet from tape. If the admin waits a...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Add monitoring and notification events for execution of the GUI snapshot scheduler

Currently only the mmcrsnapshot command is monitored and resulting in events for failure to complete.But there have been occasions where the GUI scheduler failed to even initiate the snapshot process.This failure is completely silent, not causing ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Add samlogon cache expiry and add support for manage_gids=yes and to re-authenticate AD users in NFS with sec=sys

The MANAGE_GIDS_EXPIRATION parameter is a configuration option within the NFS Ganesha core configuration file that controls the cache validity duration for group membership information (GID) lookups. The netsamlogon_cache.tdb file in Samba stores ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

A flag for File TTL in AFM Prefetch --list-files

When files are prefetch, users knows the useful life of the the files prefetched. In mmafmctl Device prefetch -j FilesetName --list-files, add an flag to set TTL for all the files being fetched. When TTL is reached, eviction should occur. This pre...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Updates to AFMConfig map should refresh non-disruptively

When NFS Home servers are brought offline for maintenance, we will have automation that updates automatically update the AFM Config map relationship. AFM needs to honor this updated map non-disruptively. Currently this is a disruptive event where ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted