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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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alert on vdisk usage threshold

On ESS, we need an mmhealth alert for full (and nearly full) vdisks/NSDS There is currently warnings (default 80% full) and errors (default 90% full) for both filesystem and pools. This is good. The problem occurs when a customer at a later time e...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

REST API should support managing fileset access control for remote mounts

Customer wants to change which filesets their compute cluster has access to, based on which group of users are using it. This is to protect groups of users to see each others files, even for root. They will implement filesystem encryption to prote...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

more control over hiding snapshot dirs / extend mmsnapdir

There seems to be no way to get rid of the .snapshots subdir in the root of indendepent snapshots. This is a problem when mirroring data using rsync. Because we do not want to rsync snapshots we need to exclude them. But for correct mirroring we a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale GUI - Increase the size of the login banner field

Many sites are required to present a legal warning on systems when a connection is initiated. Currently the Spectrum Scale login banner field is restricted to ~44 characters which is not sufficiently large enough to hold our required legal warning...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

The GUI should work with multiple proxies (Proxy-HA)

The support of several proxy servers (proxy-HA) is a widely used method throughout the routeClient -> Hardware Loadbalancer -> Proxy server -> Loadbalancer -> GUI-HA to ensure reliability.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Allow to ignore out_of_memory health issues

We have users running memory-intensive research programs that regularly trigger out_of_memory situations. These clear up pretty quickly. However, the system monitor (mmsysmon) retain the out_of_memory information until the affected host reboots. A...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

Improve ACL management in Spectrum Scale

Currently, ACL management in Scale is overly difficult. For instance, the mmputacl command requires the entire ACL to be reapplied, rather than just having the ability to add, delete, or modify existing entries. Additionally, inheritance does not ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Graceful failure of AFM recall timeouts when using AFM-NSD + Support for offline file awareness with AFM (related issues)

Any client using AFM-NSD Caching with a home storage repository that uses DMAPI aware Hierarchical Storage Management is at risk. AFM-NSD has no ability to gracefully respond when an AFM Cache requst to a recall filesfrom home times out. AFM-NFS u...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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

About Alarms

The client's filesystem space is 93% used gpfs sent an alarm pool-data_high_error through gui-snmp trip on October 20, which was notified to the client in time through the client's alarm platform, but the current administrator did not deal with it...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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