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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    GUI accounts that are restricted to specific filesystems/filesets

    The ability to create GUI/Management API accounts that are restricted to one of more filesystems/filesets in the cluster.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs

    GEICO is in the process of migrating from older Scale infrastructure to an ESS infrastructure. Non-disruptive migration is blocked when Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Add Storage Class Attribute to Data Pushed to S3

    When pushing data to S3 via the Cloudgateway service it would be helpful to be able to specify the storage class. If you don't specify the storage class the data will be stored in S3 Standard. You can create a Lifecycle policy to push the data to ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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 ...
    about 5 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...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    GPFS AFM gateways must handle migrated/offline files in asynchronous fashion

    As per the case above, we have experienced many issues in the gateway (AFM) performance, stability and global usability as a result of long waiters arising from the use of offline files in the backend of the GPFS cache and home relationship. These...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Support Soft-RoCE drivers

    As 100/200 Gigabit RoCE technologies mature, not all clients are able to leverage the same "hard" RoCE HBAs and associated drivers such as Mellanox, which is the currently supported device driver. This request recognizes there are some HBAs that m...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Confusing status message 'mmlspdisk'

    My Client submits the following:After carrier release the status is even more confusing [DIARSS root@ems1-xcat ~]# mmlspdisk all --not-okpdisk: replacementPriority = 6.77 name = "e1d2s02" device = "//essio32.ib.rsshpc1/dev/sdpe(notEnabled/closed),...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Allow acknowledging of host problems on Spectrum Scale GUI

    System: Spectrum Scale GUIActor: Admins monitoring the system The GUI is our primary way of monitoring the health and performance of the system. When a worker node goes down, which is common in a large HPC system, the health of the filesystems sho...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Provide a changelog for Scale releases

    Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

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