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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

Enhance mmshutdown confirm shutdown logic to make it ctrl-c resistend.

We had a maintenance window and want to update a storage-cluster that own 20 FS for native K8s and OCP-Clusters. We see if a additionally mmshutdown are happen and the Admin make on the prompt a ctl-c the shutdown process are working together and ...
5 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

Storage Scale - Rest API for file system defragmentation

With the rapid growth in demand for AIGC and autonomous driving, our GPFS file systems are getting larger and larger. We know that disk fragmentation within a file system is an unavoidable condition. As time goes by, the space occupied by file sys...
7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

GUI : capacity information consistency

Different information/ mismatch between ‘used capacity’ and ‘total capacity’. Monitoring -> Files -> Filesets -> view details -> used capacity Due to the fact, that two file copies are made on the filesystem on ESS storage cluster , th...
5 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

GUI change of units how quota is set up

because we need this feature for better daily operation of capacities...
21 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted