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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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CES Protocol Node support for IPv6

Ability support IPv6 on the Protocol nodes.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Give sysadmin insight into the inner workings of the NSD server machinery, in particular the queue dynamics

Enhance mmdiag to provide visibility into NSD queues. Right now, the only way to look at the threads and queues on an NSD server is "mmfsadm dump NSD" - and this command will either hang or result in a server crash. This information is critical to...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Intel Omnipath support in Spectrum Scale

I'm just wondering if native Omnipath verbs support is on the roadmap for Spectrum Scale (GPFS).
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Add compression format options - lz4 for sure, maybe xz

Spectrum Scale 4.2 added support for zlib compression. zlib is moderate compression, and low-medium speed. The implementation allows for compression as a foreground command, or background action. Either is likely to be slow. Decompression can be d...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Spectrum Scale should easily detect when only a single usable copy of any piece of data remains.

Spectrum Scale allows users to define multiple replicas of any portions of file systems. Upon disk failure, restriping allows replicated data to be replaced on other working local storage. Quality of service lets administrators regulate system res...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Generalized quality of service (QoS) user processes

For my customer who has about 30 project groups and requires a guaranteed I/O QoS for different groups of users or processes, Spectrum Scale should have its QoS capability generalized in the following manner: 1.) Define multiple classes, not just ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Enable opt-in flush-on-close feature in GPFS

Provide a mechanism by which a GPFS client may opt-in to enable implicit flush whenever close is called on a file opened for writing. This provides some additional safety against mmfsd crashes and node crashes impacting data which users believe wa...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Support for multiple AD services on one GPFS/Scale cluster

Allowing support for more than one Active Directory service per GPFS cluster would be extremely helpful in those situations where we are serving customers who are trying to create a shared storage repository for multiple sub-groups (departments, r...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Feature Request: allow two LDAP Active Directory domain searches

Referencing PMR 15924,999,866 from our storage support vendor, the version 4.1.1.5 patch is working successfully for us on the Windows client when looking up UID on 1 active directory domain. This ticket is to request a feature to expand the LDAP ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Report internal status of NSDs on NSD servers

When NSDs on an NSD server experience an I/O error GPFS appears to mark them as being in an error state, the end result being clients not sending I/O requests to that NSD server. When this happens the NSD reports it as OK via mmlsdisk and mmlsnsd....
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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