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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Support for snapshot recall in AFM cache

Currently, if a file is evicted from an AFM cache fileset, the snapshot file of the evicted file become zeros. Is there a roadmap to support fetching data from home when reading an evicted snapshot file in AFM cache cluster? This feature would be ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale and Flashcopy integration to migrate data (files) from one cluster to another cluster.

Dear, We have a customer who need to copy files from the production environment to the developement environment to offer to the developers the possibility to work with real datas. It is possible to used Flashcopied LVM volumes from one simple serv...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Attach an existing directory to a fileset

Was discussing root admin with ibm dev Germany and realized that some commands seem never to have finished development. You have two commands one to create a fileset and another to link it to a directory. But the link one requires the directory to...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Fileset Cloning or read-write snapshots

I have a microservices application running on Spectrum Scale 5.x which is looking to weekly and monthly create a copy of the production filesets that may be used for a call in support testing environment as well as an environment for upgrade and b...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

prevent uneccessary recalls / improve DMAPI support with snapshots

[ this an an idea for the DMAPI part of GPFS when working with Spectrum Protect for Space Management ] We suggest to improve the DMAPI handling code in GPFS to detect when premigrated files that are part of a snapshot and the orignal files is migr...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Request to support kernel version 5.4.15.x

Our OEM parnter Inspur Electronic Information were resold many ECE cluster to their customers. One of key issue is limited kernel supported in Storage Scale. Their customer need flexible support policy to kernel version. Their customer need to use...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Option to not automatically create mountpoints

When a Filesystem is created, GPFS makes sure, the mountpoint is created on all client nodes. We need an option to suppress this behaviour.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Run Spectrum Scale in IBM FS Cloud

Run Spectrum Scale in the IBM FS CLoud to feed a Hybrid Cloud data fabric. Help IBM to better compete VS MSoft Azure and Cloudera's Ozone.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Increase independent filespace limit

AFM, fileset snapshots and some other features can only be used with independent filesets. Thus GPFS customers are advised to prefer them over dependent filesets.But GPFS has a hardcoded limit of 1000 independent filesets per filesystem which is t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Deliver for each Server a GPFS Client for free

GPFS aka Spectrum Scale is great- to reach a broader customer set, I suggest that we'll deliver a GPFS client/ NSD "driver for free" !
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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