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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Snapshot policy to check number of snapashots

Sometimes there is a problem when the policy try to create snapshot - like mmlssnapshot timeout - and this skip the creation of snapshots - and also deletion of the old snapshot by policy- this means that the older snapshot will not be delete by t...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Increase the published limts on stored OBJECTS for DAS/HPO (NooBaa)

The published limits of DAS/HPO do not meet the enterprise requirements of Millennium Partners. The client has requested the following improvements. The IBM Spectrum Scale DAS supports the following scaling options: Up to 10 TB single object size ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Feature request: Scan all the errors necessary to identify corrupted files on a disk (LUN)

Issue: mmdeldisk command fails because there are corrupt files on an NSD (LUN). The feature should run mmrestripefs, mmdeldisk, mmrpldisk to check for any errors. By just scanning for the errors those commands produce, the clients could run it eas...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Protocols SMB online update support

With Spectrum Scale Protocols 5.0, SMB Update node by node should be possible online without downtime/business impact.Actually this is not possible.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Toolkit support for separated admin and daemon network

Due to security, some clients have different IPs for daemon and for admin network, in a Spectrum Scale Cluster, and current version of Toolkit does not support different networks.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Ganesha - Event 1 could not be processed for fd 5 rc I/O error , report the client that abuse the Ganesha, monitor that error and have action

When Ganesha server hit this error - the NFS server just hang , there is no ip failover, or restart of the NFS server: epoch 001103c9 : gpfs.ganesha.nfsd-1492239[fsal_up_0.48] GPFSFSAL_UP_Thread :FSAL_UP :WARN :Event 1 could not be processed for f...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Is a defect

Automate Spectrum Scale AFM Role Reversal Process for Failover

Request to Automate the IBM Spectrum Scale Filesystem's AFM Role Reversal Process used during failover event.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Subnets Config Parameter in CNSA / Remote Cluster

With MROT capability on Scale/Scale System (ESS) for Ethernet networks, the ability to use that vs. Network Bonds in OCP environments would be beneficial. In a recent lab test using an ESS3500 + OpenShift (Fusion), MROT was used initially, however...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Limit NFS Exports to a CES Group

Following limitation for NFS exports is in place (see A8.9 in Q&A section Spectrum Scale 5.1.2): If a file system that was previously exported successfully by NFS on a CES node becomes unavailable, the NFS daemon exits and the CES node becomes...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

To include support of remote CES Object Clusters

Currently, The Official Spectrum Scale Documentation states the following main points.• This setup(Remote Clusters) cannot be used for Object or iSCSI services.• The storage cluster must not have any protocol nodes (CES must be disabled). https://...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration