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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Enhance RAS to add a mmhealth threshold update Funktion in mmhealth framework

Currently to change a parameter in the mmhealth thresholds this is only possible with delete and add this same rule. This is error-prone to change only on parameter.The support enhance the servicability to justify one parameter in the threshold ru...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GPFS supports parameters to control the memory of pmcollector

Status: Excessive memory occupy
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

qos support dio

qos support dio
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

API enhancements for invoicing/billing

In the web gui for Scale you can easily get the accounts and used storage under the "Object / Accounts" button. But there is no simple way to retrieve this information using api/rest. (There is not even a scheduled report function for it). This is...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add real rolling update function for CNSA Version Updates

Today if we make an Update on CNSA from one Version to the next one, we see no mangement of the applikationworkload on the OCP-worker. This generate outages in our applikation-pods that are not aceptable, because of high application service level....
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhancements on Spectrum Scale Installation toolkit to support remote cluster configurations and updates

Currently there are a gap in this toolkit to define remote cluster configs. We know that the code are already available in the open source stuff but not in the offical release of the installer. It should be added to simplify the current manually s...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Improve 'mmvdisk filesystem delete' behavior

When deleting a vdisk set from a filesystem the command is: mmvdisk filesystem delete --file-system udata --vdisk-set VS2It responds with:mmvdisk: This will run the GPFS mmdeldisk command on file system 'udata'But it does NOT say what it is going ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Tools or self tune mechanisms for troubleshooting

Customers would like to have tools that would allow them to analyze our diagnostic information so they could more quickly determine what was wrong with the system and try to correct it (i.e. Self tune based on the latency and throughput of the net...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Manual ticket creation by mmcallhome/GUI

mmcallhome is capable of creating HW tickets at IBM support portal on failing hardware automatically. Sometimes it would be helpful to create ticket manually. The credential/system information are directly available. Also any snaps and trace data ...
11 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

A command is needed to manually drop the FilesToCache and StatCache of the Client node mounted with GPFS to release the tokens of the server

same as the topic
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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