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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance Interface of CES-S3 to add a functionality to create automaticaly a fileset for the bucket path, if a s3 user use s3 mb cmd over the AWS cli

With this feature we can use the filesetquota function, snapshot-funktion to maintain the usage and backup of the underlying fs.
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance Install-Toolkit to add Firewall configuration support for rhel9

Our current rhel9 Systems that are provisioned has firewalld system service actice bei default. This generate a requirement to define the nessacary firewall roules for scale.These are our current cmd's that we used: firewall-cmd --add-port=10080/t...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Recover failed Ganesha node - which mark with F flag, without reboot.

Hi We had NFS Ganesha node that failed - but we did not able to recover it , only reboot solve it. Sysmon attempted to remove the F flag three times, but all attempts to acquire the lock failed.As a result, the node remained in a failed state desp...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Adding Support of Noobaa Metrics with Integration in Zimon Sensors

Currently the existing mmces protocols has integration of metrics in the zimon Sensor Framework, but the newest one, mms3 (noobaa-core) don't. We use the current zimonGrafanaBgridge to visualize these Metrics in Grafana. The current available func...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Network resiliency enhancement - need mechanism for prioritizing control traffic over data traffic via QOS/PFC when RDMA is not enabled.

In a heavy workload situations, some clients are removed from the cluster as peer nodes are not able to communicate as heart-beat/control traffic stuck behind data traffic. Also explore, a dedicated VLAN(s) option for Control and Data traffic.
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale ECE - optimize the efficiency of swapd processing, and ensure consistency in file access

Current Issue: A directory A is created on GPFS Client 1. Then on Client 2, directory A is accessed and a subdirectory B is created inside it. If directory A is subsequently deleted and recreated on GPFS Client 1, attempting to create subdirectory...
9 months 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
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude node support on Install and deploy

In an heterogene world of scale cluster we had more an more the requirement to install new nodes with higher versions of scale because of some dependencies of OS-Kernel-Levels. (ABI changes as example). We want the same function like exclude suppo...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add Ansible for SLES at Scale Toolkit packaging

As known, Ansible is required for Scale Toolkit. The installation of Ansible is done through pip3 install and it connects to a repository to install Ansible. Some clients, special in financial sector, have restrictions to make their servers with e...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration