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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Spectrum Scale Management API does not distinguish between NFSv4 and POSIX ACLs

When using the GET ACL request https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r03.doc/bl1adm_apiv2getfilesystemacl.htm It _always_ reports the ACL is of the NFSv4 type, even if the ACL is POSIX This is false i...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

VMotion DRS Support for Scale RDM NSD + Quorum Nodes

This IDEA is to support vMotion for NSD RDM nodes. VMware clients - vMotion DRS is enabled by default, used by all clients. To use Scale RDM with ESXi - vMotion is either enabled (automatic) or disabled (manual). To confirm disabled simply means ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Improvement to Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) for shared files.

Request for an improved DLM mechanism when leveraging a scale out protocole node approach to better handle Locking broadcasting overhead for "shared to all" files and folder.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support ILM pool migrations in stretched cluster without killing WAN

Currently when migrating files between replicated storage pools in a stretched cluster, intense load is experienced on the WAN. This is because the migration is essentially a copy of the files (hopefully?? respecting readReplicaPolicy) and the wri...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Pagepool enhancements

Today, the pagepool value in GPFS is set once typically at install. However if the workloads change, the setting needs to be done by customer intervention. One example, the pagepool needs to be readjusted when there is not enough memory left for t...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

GPFS Client/Server Capable of AIX Live Update Function

Enhance GPFS code base to allow for a AIX 7.2 GPFS Client/Server to be capable of the AIX Live Update Function.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Simplified descOnly support on virtual quorum node

We should support using VM internal partition for descOnly NSD. Should not require the complexity of raw device mapping for this simple functionality, that also doesn't have any risk of data loss. I asked on the internal General Parallel File Syst...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale VMWare ESX V7 Support

Hallo,we plan to migrate our SAS-Grid Cluster to a VMWare based Plattform. These Platform is installed with ESX Version 7.0 U2. But currently scale support only V6.x.This gap stop our Migrationsplans currently. With the introduction ov Version 7 E...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale GUI - Need to improve pmcollector service with large amount of performance data

Problem: "pmcollector" service failed to start while there was large amount of performance data (about 10GB for 6 months). Performance data can not be shown on the GUI. And restarting the GUI did not help. ZIMON can not process large amount of per...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Client Supend/Maintenance Mode

Add the possibility to put a GPFS client node in a suspend mode or maintenance mode.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

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