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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Improve 'mmvdisk filesystem delete' behavior

When deleting a vdisk set from a filesystem the command is: mmvdisk filesystem delete --file-system udata --vdisk-set VS2It responds with:mmvdisk: This will run the GPFS mmdeldisk command on file system 'udata'But it does NOT say what it is going ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Tools or self tune mechanisms for troubleshooting

Customers would like to have tools that would allow them to analyze our diagnostic information so they could more quickly determine what was wrong with the system and try to correct it (i.e. Self tune based on the latency and throughput of the net...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GUI role for user with permissions to only manage Quota on Spectrum Scale

We have several divisions who would need to manage their own quota on Spectrum Scale. According to the IBM DEV Team and Lab Services, users with one of the following roles should have access to the filesets/quotas: securityadmin admin protocoladmi...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Parallelise mmgetpdisktopology checks

In a recent install carried out by an IBM engineer several steps repeately invoked mmgetpdisktopology to check drive attributes. This queries each drive one by one which each drive query taking around just over a second. These were seen in the for...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Improve system memory hard limit for GPFS program startup to adapt to AI system

We hit the following issue on Spectrum Scale 5.1.6.1 when GPFS is starting up. 2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] Verifying minimum system memory configurations.2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] The system memory configuration is 2063930 MiB2023-12...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale needs to be NIST 800-53 compliant.

After scanning our system, Stig report is generated and there is one case have been addressed from our side but is still not resolved. In additional details, the issue is being addressed.
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

start all available NSDs after reboot or with "mmchdisk start -a"

"mmchdisk FS start -a" fails if one or more NSDs of a file system is not available (e.g. did not spin up). This is very odd. Our expectation is, that all available NSDs are started, and only the unavailable devices stay down. Actually, all NSDs of...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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