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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Spectrum Scale GPFS client running on z/OS

Customer desires to speed up time to insights from their systems of record on z/OS.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add GPFS Fileset quota metrics/monitoring

Product: Spectrum Scale quota monitoring (specially for filesets) We use GPFS fileset quota. These fileset quota is only monitored internally by the GPFS GUI - if the GPFS GUI is installed. If the fileset quota exceeded, the system will give you n...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

add --auto-inode-limit for independent filesets

In Storage Scale 5.1.4 mmcrfs/mmchfs introduced the --(no)auto-inode-limit switches. Unfortunately this only works for whole filesystems and cannot be finetuned for individual (independent) filesets. There are situations where you have a mixed env...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

REST API - Quotas for Users and Groups

Create a REST API to show User and Group quotas. Currently, the only quotas are Filesystems and Filesets - If users have a homedir set to a fileset you can get their quota, however if user or group quotas are set they cannot be retrieved.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

gpfs client support rocky linux

we expect gpfs client support more operation systems to meet the needs of mostusers, for example rocky linux
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

GNR needs to be supported outside ESS

Since Spectrum Scale is a Software Defined Storage product, we would need to support GNR outside of Elastic Storage Server.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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

SMB transparent failover

The current design only support NFS transparent failover and SMB is not. Without SMB transparent failover, end user need to interactive with failover session. Customer hope to support CIFS session reconnect automatically during CES FO/FB. This can...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Product requirements related to performance monitoring

1.Distinguish between creating and opening indicators at the VFS level 2.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, distinguish the read and write latency indicators of different clusters. 3.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, d...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale - automatic audit log files rotation

The File Audit Logging functionality from Spectrum Scale captures file operations on a file system and logs them to a retention enabled fileset.Depending on the number of operations at the Spectrum Scale file system, it can generate lots of audit ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration