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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Increase the published limts on stored OBJECTS for DAS/HPO (NooBaa)

The published limits of DAS/HPO do not meet the enterprise requirements of Millennium Partners. The client has requested the following improvements. The IBM Spectrum Scale DAS supports the following scaling options: Up to 10 TB single object size ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Feature request: Scan all the errors necessary to identify corrupted files on a disk (LUN)

Issue: mmdeldisk command fails because there are corrupt files on an NSD (LUN). The feature should run mmrestripefs, mmdeldisk, mmrpldisk to check for any errors. By just scanning for the errors those commands produce, the clients could run it eas...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Subnets Config Parameter in CNSA / Remote Cluster

With MROT capability on Scale/Scale System (ESS) for Ethernet networks, the ability to use that vs. Network Bonds in OCP environments would be beneficial. In a recent lab test using an ESS3500 + OpenShift (Fusion), MROT was used initially, however...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

mmrestripefs % complete metric is near useless

Current behavior------------------mmrestripefs (and mmdeldisk) displays a % complete metric while it is going. Unforunately, this seems to be tracking the % of the inode of the whole filesystem that it is currently working on. Deficiency of this--...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Limit NFS Exports to a CES Group

Following limitation for NFS exports is in place (see A8.9 in Q&A section Spectrum Scale 5.1.2): If a file system that was previously exported successfully by NFS on a CES node becomes unavailable, the NFS daemon exits and the CES node becomes...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

mmhealth should complain about NSDs which have lost one path

Listing the NSDs shows that some of themhave only one path available. One of the two servers of a building block does not see the Volume:[root@justnsd01a ~]# mmlsnsd -f cesSharedRoot -X Disk name NSD volume ID Device Devtype Node name Remarks ----...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

CES Group failover, within the locality, when using a stretched cluster

Client in a active-active Spectrum Scale stretched cluster using protocol nodes. They have 6 protocol nodes in total. Nowadays, in case of 1 node failure, the CES IP can be failover to any nodes, either in the same site or to the remote site. This...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow acknowledging of host problems on Spectrum Scale GUI

System: Spectrum Scale GUIActor: Admins monitoring the system The GUI is our primary way of monitoring the health and performance of the system. When a worker node goes down, which is common in a large HPC system, the health of the filesystems sho...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Automate Spectrum Scale AFM Role Reversal Process for Failover

Request to Automate the IBM Spectrum Scale Filesystem's AFM Role Reversal Process used during failover event.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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