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    Protocols - S3: IPv6 Support

    Support for IPv6 networking with CES S3 (Noobaa)
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

    Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    IO Performance Reporting/Tracking of Specific Applications / HPC Jobs

    Add the ability to provide application / job specific performance monitoring and reporting (mmperfmon and GUI). Many HPC customers would like the ability to trace IOs from the filesystem perspective with the granularity of the application/job. Thi...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Storage Scale performance is extremely sensitive to network and backend latency, there must be a mechanism to monitor those critical KPI

    It would help both system administrator and IBM Support to be able to quickly identify the key issue and be able to isolate the bottleneck to address critical performance issues.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

    Updates to tsapplypolicy to stop the after directory and inode scans

    The tsapplypolicy tool is very efficient at safely handling the scans of directories and inodes across many nodes. However it is using very slow tools for sorting and merging this data. As a result we cannot run the mmapplypolicy operation on very...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    improve mmxcp logging and monitoring

    mmxcp logs all output to /var/..../ras/mmxcp.log That is 1. pretty unreadable and not very informative. If multiple instances of the mmxcp are running all logging is done to the same log file. It would be good to have one log file per mmxcp instan...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Support Scale Client running on VMware ESXi 8.x

    According to the support page, VMware ESX 7.x is supoorted but not ESXi8.x . Table 72. VMware support matrix on VM guest https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#virtual also please provide GDS(GPUDirect Storage ) support informatio...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Expedited inode scan / faster disk replacement for descOnly disks with filesystem that have large inode counts

    For Scale filesystems with very large inode counts, requesting an improvement to reduce/consolidate the inode scan requirements when replacing the descOnly disks (128M).
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    CES NFS - extended attributes

    Storage Scale (GPFS) does support extended attributes for the users like: > getfattr -d stephan.txt > md5sum stephan.txt 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt > setfattr -n user.md5 -v 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt &...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Introduce effective quality management

    During the last year, we saw many new ISS code levels, most of them with critical errors that could lead to data corruption or data loss. Fortunately, many costumers were spared from data corruption, but they had to update Scale nearly monthly to ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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