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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add Ansible for SLES at Scale Toolkit packaging

As known, Ansible is required for Scale Toolkit. The installation of Ansible is done through pip3 install and it connects to a repository to install Ansible. Some clients, special in financial sector, have restrictions to make their servers with e...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support Soft-RoCE drivers

As 100/200 Gigabit RoCE technologies mature, not all clients are able to leverage the same "hard" RoCE HBAs and associated drivers such as Mellanox, which is the currently supported device driver. This request recognizes there are some HBAs that m...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

RAS improvements - "mmlsnvmestatus" also check "lbaf", "ms" and "rp"

It is desired to have "mmlsnvmestatus" also check "lbaf", "ms" and "rp" (Spectrum Scale ECE, RTC Issue 267159)
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GUI improvement to policies

1. Often we see that if the policy gets slightly complicated, the ILM editor bails out, and only gives us the possibility of editing the policy file directly. The policy editor should be much more robust, so that it can be used for more than the s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow more than 20 threshold rules in the GUI (mmhealth)

You can only create a maximum of 20 threshold rules, either through the Spectrum Scale GUI or directly with the mmhealth command. This limit should be increased (e.g. to a minimum of 50)
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Parallelization/enhancement of pool migrations of individual large files

When running migrations between different pools often it appears the tail latency of the ILM run is dictated by a small number of large files This seems to be due to the pool migration of any individual file being a single threaded activity that i...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

GUI: Provide a way to specify a the port to be used for multicluster connects _per cluster_

We have a gpfs gui running on the dss-g xcat server. Unfortunately xcat blocks the default gui port 443 so we had to run the gui on port 8443 (suggestion by Lenovo). However, connects from multicluster gui nodes are not possible this way. We can ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale REST API Endpoint for mmafmconfig

We need a way that the Spectrum Scale REST API exposes the mmafmconfig command. In particular the mmafmconfig enable <fileset> is important for us.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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