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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Ability to Specify protocol -- rdma/tcp -- along with the subnet/cluster reachability

    Consider the following use-case: There are two clusters each with multiple nodes. The intra-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes within the cluster) happens via TCP and inter-cluster communication (i.e amongst nodes between clusters) happens v...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    using remote clients as helper nodes for policy scans and processing migration

    Usually, IBM recommends to pool all ESS Storage Servers in a so called storage cluster and then connect one or multiple remote client / or so called / compute clusters to the ESS. In fact, thats meanwhile a common best practice cluster topology. O...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale VMWare ESX V7 Support

    Hallo,we plan to migrate our SAS-Grid Cluster to a VMWare based Plattform. These Platform is installed with ESX Version 7.0 U2. But currently scale support only V6.x.This gap stop our Migrationsplans currently. With the introduction ov Version 7 E...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Scale GUI - Need to improve pmcollector service with large amount of performance data

    Problem: "pmcollector" service failed to start while there was large amount of performance data (about 10GB for 6 months). Performance data can not be shown on the GUI. And restarting the GUI did not help. ZIMON can not process large amount of per...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CES NFS - pNFS

    Support pNFS (specifically, multiple pNFS CES clusters for any given number of filesystems). There appears to be support for pNFS within the GPFS Ganesha FSAL but at present it's not documented, certainly not supported, and doesn't seem to work.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    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 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Feature request: Scan all the errors necessary to identify corrupted files on a disk (LUN)

    Issue: mmdeldisk command fails because there are corrupt files on an NSD (LUN). The feature should run mmrestripefs, mmdeldisk, mmrpldisk to check for any errors. By just scanning for the errors those commands produce, the clients could run it eas...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 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 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Storage Scale - Safe-guarded snapshots - allow expiration - give client to set its own expiration parameter in the GUI snapshot rule

    By setting the "Allow Expiration" for snapshot rules under the GUI, it sets the snapshot only until the next execution, not for the whole retention, neither allows to client to sets its own retention. Based on the IBM Documentation "https://www.ib...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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