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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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lowInodes Callback for filesets

The noDiskspace callback is triggered on several occasions, one being an inodespace running out of inodes. At that point n time the filespace is already full and users see "no space on device" errors. We'd need a similar callback that triggers ear...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Support for dynamic expansion of each constituent volume in Storage Scale GPFS's File System, especially in combination with Db2 PureScale on Public Cloud.

It is necessary to support dynamic expansion of each constituent volume itself, rather than GPFS expansion by adding volumes. Adding volumes has a limit on the number of expansions. The method of adding a volume larger than the existing volume an...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to Specify protocol -- rdma/tcp -- along with the subnet/cluster reachability

Consider the following use-case: There are two clusters each with multiple nodes. The intra-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes within the cluster) happens via TCP and inter-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes between clusters) happens v...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

using remote clients as helper nodes for policy scans and processing migration

Usually, IBM recommends to pool all ESS Storage Servers in a so called storage cluster and then connect one or multiple remote client / or so called / compute clusters to the ESS. In fact, thats meanwhile a common best practice cluster topology. O...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GUI accounts that are restricted to specific filesystems/filesets

The ability to create GUI/Management API accounts that are restricted to one of more filesystems/filesets in the cluster.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add Broadcom SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in Scale ECE

One of OEM partners are planning to replace existing SAS 3108 HBA with SAS 3808/3908 HBAs. But we didn't find SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the support list of ECE 5.1.9. The partner hope IBM can support SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the next release. They can pr...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for Overlay-FS for disk that are provisioned per CNSA/Storage Scale

We want to use Storage Scale with the CNSA-Implementation also with the requirement to use this for the Image-Building Process like BUILDKIT. But this doesnt work today becouse of missing Overlay-FS Support. The benefit will be to use more then on...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale GUI Dashboard Nodes by Latency

Add the ability to "Cherry Pick" and display in the Scale GUI the top nodes by latency. This could be on the statistics widget or a new widget. Add the granularity of client nodes, NSD nodes, nodes by nodeclass XYZ, or custom picked nodes. Additio...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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