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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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GPFS command confliction list

Our client uses IBM Spectrum Scale for NAS. Scale has many GPFS commands which have "mm" prefix, and some commands conflict each other.We want to know the conflict list on KnowledgeCenter for their daily operation.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Command to check compressed usage size for each fileset quickly

We are performing IBM Spectrum Scale compression on each fileset on daily basis through gpfs policies. The df command is not showing the accurate usage for each fileset and only du shows the actual usage. But since du usually takes long time to pr...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Ganesha Per Client Statistics

ganesha_mgr/ganesha_stats allow only seeing either the overall NFS operations or the per-export breakdown of the NFS operations. There is no command that displays the per-client operations of a particular export which is critical when trying to tr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

fine-grained performance monitoring for protocol

The customer raised this requirement in their workshop in 2018:1. for protocol/NFS, PingAn could monitor the throughput of each exported points. PingAn raised the request to monitor the throughput from each clients to see which client is taking mo...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Free unused dynamic heap memory

The GPFS memory footprint is defined by- pagepool- shared memory pool- heap- stack of all threads (512KB per GPFS thread, usually the stack size is not an issue) "pagepool" and "shared memory pool" are configurable, but no parameter in GPFS to con...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

gpfs client support rocky linux

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

NFS V4.2 Support

We need support for NFS V4.2 On the one hand, NFS V4.0 face major issues, and on the other hand in our use case we could strongly benefit from the new 4.2 features like "server-side-copy" and "sparse files"
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Management API Version 2 should support SMB exportacls

The Spectrum Scale management API Version 2 includes commands for managing SMB exports, like Create/Modify/Delete an SMB share.These command represent the 'mmsmb export' cli commands. The API Version 2 must provide an equivalent for the 'mmsmb exp...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Migrate object storage to tape

For the upcoming object interface in Spectrum Scale it should be possible to migrate object data to tape.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude support on install and deploy

In the heterogene world of scale cluster we see more and more an requirement to put different versions of scale because of new deployments of OS (rhel) and other decisions and dependencies.The current toolkit installation missed this feature to ad...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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