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    Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

    A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip

    Ternary.txt ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip. we do not need to develop the quantum - super conductor 150kw sub zero temperatures. it is enough that we develop a proper ternary quantum chip. ternary chip has three states -1 0...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    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

    Easy R/W failover for a replicated node

    In a ISP environment using the Node Replication feature, the R/O client failover is automated since version 7.1.1 of the ISP server. It works fine, but allows only the restore or retrieve of objects.If the source server is unavailable for a longer...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: REST API for mms3 commands

    Currently a REST API call to create a new S3 user account is missing, This is needed for several client applications. The AWS REST API and client provides this function which is currently used by a client application... workaround to create user a...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    IBM Redbooks for IBM Spectrum Protect / IBM SpectrumProtect Plus

    There are no longer IBM Redbooks for this product available. The education budget was shrinked and the Admin Guide was removed. Where should customers get information how to work with this product
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Backpressure for virtual disk I/O to prevent throughput and IOPS overload to avoid "Forcing kernel panic to clear hung I/O".

    When a cluster reboots, the recovery process can generate a lot of I/O ( high throughput and IOPS ) which might hit the limits of the virtual disk. And unlike physical disks, when virtual disks get overwhelmed, we can see I/O hang for up to second...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Remove Node Feature in Spectrum Scale CNSA

    Currently in the CNSA Implementation there are no way to reduce a define CNSA-Cluster to one or more Nodes, like a mmdelnode step. The Operator has no function to do these necessary step to reduce a cluster with these request.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    Add quota logging capability to keep overall quota accounting consistent

    For performance, nowadays, most of quota information is stored and updated in memory. Then, it will be synced back to disk in an asynchronous way later. However, there isn't a recovery mechanism for GPFS quota in abnormal situations. These can mak...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    Command to force Dynamic Pagepool to shrink to minimum size

    When utilizing the dynamic pagepool during IO operations, the pagepool automatically expands until possibly reaching its maximum allocated size. It then remains at that level, even after the IO operations have completed, until additional memory (m...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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