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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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ECE edition 5.1.9 version support 256 storage node in one cluster

as title, we need 5.1.9 version（LTS）support 256 Necessary
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

extend number of independent filesets

For a file system used in a large research facility with a capacity beyond 20 PB, we would like to generate at least 5000 independent filesets for projects being active in processing and generating data. We expect initially a demand for 5000 indep...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

API enhancement for File System Size and Utilization

In the current version (5.1.8) the api does not have a usable endpoint for the filesystem to show Current File System Size (Data/System) File system utilisation (size / %used)
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

NFS Export: Show connected clients

Tool that will list the clients that are connected to *a particular NFS (CES) export*
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale should support resource management using cgroups version 2 with systemd

The current systemd version in RHEL 8 is now capable doing resource management using cgroups version 2.We are interested in the feature to configure I/O bandwidth. But to use it a device is needed: IOReadIOPSMax=device IOPS, IOWriteIOPSMax=device ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Feature Enhancement to support multiple infiniband partition key

Increase security against eavesdropping by limiting the access to resources using infiniband partition so cross talk and malicious attacks can be eliminate
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Request to add "all" option to put filesystem in maintenance mode

In order to shutdown/startup gpfs gracefully, it is recommended to put filesystem in maintenance mode using "mmchfs --maintenance-mode" cmd before shutdown. However, this command allow only one filesystem at a time. So if the customer has many fil...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Adding Enhancment on Measurement Monitoring on level of Fileset quota

Because in our company GPFS structure based on three or four filesystem like /production & /test and we created million of fileset based on project name but unfortunately some of these filesets reach maximum quota 100% and application down bec...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

'failureDetectionTime' less than 10

We require to set 'failureDetectionTime' less than 10 in File System replica with DAE/DME or Erasure Coding with ECE. According to case #TS009816891, the minimum value for 'failureDetectionTime' is 10. Could you please allow us to set less than 10...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Convert a root fileset to an independent fileset

With AFM working only with independent filesets and not with root fileset, a customer that is hosting some data that needs to be replicated on its root fileset and that needs to transition to AFM will need to migrate (copy/move) all the data on th...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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