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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Spectrum Scale Toolkit support for separated admin and daemon network

Due to security, some clients have different IPs for daemon and for admin network, in a Spectrum Scale Cluster, and current version of Toolkit does not support different networks.
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Disable NFS export

When having maintenance on larger file systems, it's advisable to first do a clean shutdown, and then enable maintenance mode with mmchfs --maintenance-mode to avoid anyone mounting or processes messing with the file system. This is quite problema...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Make CSI upgrade easier for disconnected clusters

At the present time when you want to upgrade spectrum scale's CSI there's no clear documentation: I go to the target version section and then to the 'upgrade' part. But there's nothing written for a disconnected cluster and for RHEL servers. To ha...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Expand the number of supported Protocol Clusters that can be configured on a IBM Spectrum Scale Storage Cluster

Expand support for the current limitation of one storage cluster and up to five protocol clusters to one storage cluster and up to ten protocol clusters.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Support ILM pool migrations in stretched cluster without killing WAN

Currently when migrating files between replicated storage pools in a stretched cluster, intense load is experienced on the WAN. This is because the migration is essentially a copy of the files (hopefully?? respecting readReplicaPolicy) and the wri...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale GUI - Need to improve pmcollector service with large amount of performance data

Problem: "pmcollector" service failed to start while there was large amount of performance data (about 10GB for 6 months). Performance data can not be shown on the GUI. And restarting the GUI did not help. ZIMON can not process large amount of per...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale VMWare ESX V7 Support

Hallo,we plan to migrate our SAS-Grid Cluster to a VMWare based Plattform. These Platform is installed with ESX Version 7.0 U2. But currently scale support only V6.x.This gap stop our Migrationsplans currently. With the introduction ov Version 7 E...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

ganesha_stats improvements

It's difficult to troubleshoot client related issues from the CES cluster. Need a command that output a list of the top clients by amount of operations on the shares. It's necessary in case of situations when clients create load that impedes the r...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

mmdf needs an option to not reach out to all remote clients

On our very large environment, mmdf will take hours to run. This is apparently because the ESS cluster will reach out to our thousands of remote clients to verify accuracy of its statistics. Worse the entire system slows down while this is occurri...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Add compressed/ill-compressed options to mmfind

For a while we have maintained our own modified versions of mmfind and tr_findToPol.pl in /usr/lpp/mmfs/samples/ilm so we can identify the compressed and illcompressed files. It would be nice if this feature could be considered for inclusion in fu...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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