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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Prometheus Exporter for zimon metrics

For our compute and Storage systems we are running a monitoring setup based on Prometheus in combination with the Prometheus node exporter and Alert manager. To monitor spectrum Scale health we have some self written scripts collecting metrics. Bu...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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

Allow remote mount for fileset in different paths on the remote cluster to mou

With the new functionality of remote mount controlled by fileset, it gives the opportunity to grant or deny access to different filesets within the same file system. Although the functionality is deployed on the owning cluster, at the remote clust...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

gpfs enhance NFS performance in chip design domain

we expect GPFS to enhance NFS performance to accommodate small file scenarios in the chip design domain to beat netapp
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

fileset QoS distinguish read and write

we expect fileset QoS distinguish read and write to enhance the flexibility of QoS, also expect metadata support qos
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

gpfs support mount fileset or directory

I hope that GPFS (General Parallel File System) supports mounting filesets or directories. Since each fileset or directory is used by different individuals, if mounting of filesets and directories is supported, it would achieve the effect of data ...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Accelerate re-balance actions when adding new ECE nodes into existing RG

Partner was opened two cases about expanding ECE nodes to existing RG. The re-balance progress was very slowly. The action was last for 3 months when adding 3 new ECE nodes into existing 5 ECE nodes topology.This is not a acceptable solution to cu...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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