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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Support 256 or more cluster watches per cluster.

Only 25 cluster watches are supported per cluster, but we need 256 at least.
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance mmperfmon sensors to generate DF statistics also for .snapshots in Filesystem and filset structure

In the area of Cybercrime we are in preparation of using saveguarded snapshots in our scale based Storage Protect environment. Because of the usage of immutable snapshots we had no sensor that generate space utilisation statistics of snapshots in ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Snapshot directory to show valid creation date

When we do ls -l on the .snapshots directory from NFS client, or GPFS client.We see strange dates which are not related to the snapshots : he dates on the snapshots directories look strange. [root@ems4 @GMT-2023.12.26-02.00.55]# mmlssnapshot gpfsO...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Snapshot policy to check number of snapashots

Sometimes there is a problem when the policy try to create snapshot - like mmlssnapshot timeout - and this skip the creation of snapshots - and also deletion of the old snapshot by policy- this means that the older snapshot will not be delete by t...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

AFM Azure Blob direct support

For data exchange, data access from multiple sites and also access of data from within Azure we would like to use Spectrum Scale AFM connected to a Azure blob similar as connected to S3 storage. Currently this will require a S3 / Azure converter l...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Ability to change NSD names

We would like the ability to change the name of existing NSDs. This change could be done while entire GPFS NSD Server Cluster is down, similar to when you change the NSD ServerList.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Adding SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES for SpectrumScale

We need SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES.SLES has a market share of 99% in HANA on Power.HANA will be the only database for SAP.To use SpectrumScale in HANA environments we need SLES Support for smb.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Add zstd as a compression option

Although the existing compression options are okay sometimes it would be nice to be have more options where speed and decent compression ratios are achievable. Zstd has been gaining traction both in the Linux area and is already on some IBM tape d...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

List and stop long running commands

Some Spectrum Scale commands can take a long time to run, such as mmapplypolicy, mmrestripefs, mmecheckquota. These might be run manually, or started by cron a batch system, or a callback. But sometimes, once started, there is a need to stop the c...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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