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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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more useful output from mmrestripefs failures

It is possible, in a number of scenarios, to have a mmrestripefs operation fail when many disks are suspended and the filesystem is being restriped to bring the disks to the empty state. This is not an uncommon operation, especially when data is m...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

HPO to support InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to have HPO support for deployment on InfiniBand infrastructure.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

HPO to support AFM managed data along with data transfer to AWS S3

In order to provide high-performance hybrid-cloud object storage for Analytics & AI, within HPO, it is required to process S3 object data via AFM to on-prem AND on AWS S3. To place/move objects intelligently on/to AWS S3, HPO AFM needs to supp...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CNSA on OpenShift on bare-metal along with InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to support CNSA on bare-metal OpenShift with InfiniBand by June 2023. Workaround of CNSA on VMware with InfiniBand is not supported, because OpenShift does not supp...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance AFM to transfer NFSv4 ACLs from NFS servers like Isilons and store the ACLs correct as GPFS ACLs

Storage Scale and Storage Scale System are great products. But in many cases, another storage is already used and there are no easy ways to migrate PBytes of data - except perhaps with AFM? Almost all installations use e.g. AD integrations and NFS...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

network access controlm for mmsysmon REST API

Currently mmsysmon REST API allows all inbound connections. Our cybersecurity penetration team has successfully sent network packets that caused REST API to malfunction, leaving hundreds of connections in CLOSE_WAIT state. In this scenario CherryP...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

zstd compression & dictionary support

If zstd support is added to the product it would be very interesting to allow for a few dictionaries to be used to improve (de)compression speed and compression ratio. This is ideal in situations where ILM policies can be written to target either ...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Enable multi protocol CES SMB / NFS rolling upgrades when CTDB upgrade is within a minor version.

When a multi protocol SMB and NFS CES cluster is upgraded, a short full stop of all CES protocols is required due to CTDB not allowing mixed major or minor versions. This can often cause issues with NFS mounts, if it is not possible to unmount the...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

eliminate lack of I/O on mmdelsnapshot start

When deletion of bunch of snapshots starts we a lack of I/O for about three minutes.NFS Clients see a huge delay of I/O. Related applications hanging for this time and user connections and run into timeouts (e.g http connections for apps that stor...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Planned for future release

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