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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Shorten CES failover/failback timeout

The io pending time in the failure of CES interface failure/CES node failure is 10s. Customer‘s expectation is 4-5s so that can improve usage experience.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

AFM immutable file support

Need to be able to make files immutable in a home fileset for AFM in order to protect data from ransomware, data will be created at the cache site (single-writer) and transferred to the home site using AFM, data are to be retained at the home site...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance mmfindinode Performance and Provide SDK API for Path Query by Inode

This RFE requests enhancements to the mmfindinode utility in the GPFS/Spectrum Scale filesystem to significantly improve its performance. Additionally, it proposes the development of an SDK API that allows querying file paths based on inode number...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

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 ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support https natively on S3 objects in protocol nodes

This RFE is opened in behalf of General Motors. Vendors are required to support secure http i.e https for Object Store as one of the protocols provided in Spectrum Scale protocol nodes. Currently the product does not support https.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under 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 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Product requirements related to performance monitoring

1.Distinguish between creating and opening indicators at the VFS level 2.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, distinguish the read and write latency indicators of different clusters. 3.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, d...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

CES Group failover, within the locality, when using a stretched cluster

Client in a active-active Spectrum Scale stretched cluster using protocol nodes. They have 6 protocol nodes in total. Nowadays, in case of 1 node failure, the CES IP can be failover to any nodes, either in the same site or to the remote site. This...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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