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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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[BDA]support data locality in a shared-storage environment

This RFE is requesting that GPFS be modified to support data locality in a shared storage environment by modifying the FPO featureset to support multiple NSD servers per NSD. This is requisite for leveraging data locality in a scale-out environmen...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Ability for protocol replication to co-exist with other non-protocol AFM-based DR instances

We need protocol replication to be able to co-exist with other non-protocol AFM-based DR instances On our advanced edition GPFS clusters, we wish to have both: o AFM-based DR for normal filesets (managed via mmafmctl) o protocol DR for filesets wi...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

A new option to support FQDN Name in mmgetstate

This customer has general policy for hostname and hostname does include .(dot) and the characters after .(dot) is a main separator.A sample example is below;host1.poc1host1.poc2..host1.pocn So when we add this in a cluster, mmgetstate use just sho...
about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Increment RPM Release Number for ifix/efix RPM Releases

Increment RPM release number for ifix/efix RPM releases so they're differentiated by "rpm" and "yum", and thus not require the use of "yum reinstall" or "rpm --force -U" to install. Properly incremented release numbers will allow for a normal upgr...
about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Reduce time to remove a failed disk in GPFS

Please can you look to reduce the time it takes to remove a disk from a GPFS file system in the particular scenario when the disk has already failed (and so is suspended or down) and the data on it has been evacuated onto other nodes as restripeOn...
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Hadoop API/ Connector and it's Extended Attributes support for GPFS managing shared storage & support for Open Source Disti's

Support for the GPFS Hadoop API and it's extended attivutes to be included/supported in a normal GPFS Shared disk environment without the need for a bunch of servers with local disks. and without requiring a special GPFS-FPO code load. This includ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Make GPFS more atomic

At present you cannot delete, create snapshots or filesets if a migration is occurring.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Delivered

Override the sort routine within policy processing

Ability to specify extra args to sort (E.G. for natural sort for numerical sequences) or to use a user specified program to perform the sort using a different algorithm.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Support GPFS on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and future LTS releases

Support Ubuntu LTS releases in addition to Debian
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Treat all independent filesets identically to the global namespace operations

Independent filesets do not raise callbacks on lowSpace or noSpace. Therefore it is very easy for an independent fileset to become full instantly affecting users.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

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