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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Data inegrity checksum on stored data

In the time of Big Data the storage solutions are increasing in magnitude. With the growth of the data the risk of being hit by a silent data corruption also increases. Spectrum Scale itself does not check the data integrity stored on the NSD. It ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Feature Enhancement to support multiple infiniband partition key

Increase security against eavesdropping by limiting the access to resources using infiniband partition so cross talk and malicious attacks can be eliminate
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for ROCKY Linux

Client is requesting ROCKY Linux support for their client nodes.
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Storage Scale - Safe-guarded snapshots - allow expiration - give client to set its own expiration parameter in the GUI snapshot rule

By setting the "Allow Expiration" for snapshot rules under the GUI, it sets the snapshot only until the next execution, not for the whole retention, neither allows to client to sets its own retention. Based on the IBM Documentation "https://www.ib...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Reflink/ficlone support

reflink/ficlone is a system call for making clones of files, where all data blocks is initially shared, and changes are then done through copy-on-write/redirect-on-write. This can be done through "cp --reflink", or IOCTL_FICLONERANGE system call. ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

NFS Export: Show connected clients

Tool that will list the clients that are connected to *a particular NFS (CES) export*
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Product requirements related to performance monitoring

1.Distinguish between creating and opening indicators at the VFS level 2.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, distinguish the read and write latency indicators of different clusters. 3.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, d...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale should support resource management using cgroups version 2 with systemd

The current systemd version in RHEL 8 is now capable doing resource management using cgroups version 2.We are interested in the feature to configure I/O bandwidth. But to use it a device is needed: IOReadIOPSMax=device IOPS, IOWriteIOPSMax=device ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

'failureDetectionTime' less than 10

We require to set 'failureDetectionTime' less than 10 in File System replica with DAE/DME or Erasure Coding with ECE. According to case #TS009816891, the minimum value for 'failureDetectionTime' is 10. Could you please allow us to set less than 10...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

extend number of independent filesets

For a file system used in a large research facility with a capacity beyond 20 PB, we would like to generate at least 5000 independent filesets for projects being active in processing and generating data. We expect initially a demand for 5000 indep...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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