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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    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 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    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...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

    data tiering of block (ranges ) within a file

    A file needs to be able to be located partially on multiple storage TIERs, depending on various specific conditions like policy rules, selectable by ranges in Bytes or #blocks, rules for file names etc..The goal is that data within one single file...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Support more than 15 remote clusters with fileset access control

    Customer needs strict separation of filesets accessible on different compute clusters, and want to utilize RFAC to control what view each of the compute clusters has access to in the file system. Customer was then surprised when they hit the limit...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    CES NFS - SLES as NFS Client on IBM Power Platform

    Many SAP Customers in Europe are running SLES for their HANA DB Workload on IBM Power Systems. Due to the current search for software that offers the customer HA cluster NFS (cNFS) server functionality, Spectrum Scale is an ideal solution. But to...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Enhance Scale ansible toolkit to deploy zimonGrafana Bridge

    Eliminate manual effort to add zimonGrafana Bridge
    2 months 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...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

    Protocols - SMB Multichannel

    SMB Multichannel enables file servers to use multiple network connections simultaneously. It facilitates aggregation of network bandwidth and network fault tolerance when multiple paths (f.ex. multiple network adapters configured for LACP on clien...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

    The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    AFM - Connect to non-standard NFS port

    Add the ability for NFS server/export to be used as a "home" on a non-standard configurable port. This should capability should also be in the AFM parallel data transfer mappings.
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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