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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Enhance Installer Toolkit to support update keberized hdfs-scale cluster

We use scale 5.1.3.0 to update our scale hdfs-transparency cluster to update this Version from 5.1.2.2. During the ./spectrumscale upgrade precheck we see a error:Both namenodes are in stand by state, but the haaadmin cmd -getAllServiceState list ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

GUI option fo enable maintenance mode and do not send alert

During node maintenance, like code upgrade, OS upgrade, rebooting, client would like to have an option to put the node or cluster in maintenance mode. By setting this flag, the SNMP traps and SNMP emails would not be sent.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

mmbackup dry-run mode

The mmbackup command is intended for highly-scalable backups of IBM Spectrum Scale (SS) filesystems to one or more IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) servers using the SS policy engine to identify files and the SP client software to send them to SP. The co...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Disable the Spectrum Scale GUI service without disabling the REST API service in Spectrum Scale

Bank of America is a tier 1 segment client that adopts lots of IBM technologies. At this moment, they are adopting Openshift and making its way into the corporation. To feed this openshift environment, the containers need to access a shared filesy...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Allow a comment to be created/added/deleted to a node definition

Allow a comment to be attached to or removed from a node definition with the cluster.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Forcing user and group IDs on SMB shares

With cross protocol access to a share, Unix users creating files with Spectrum Scale or NFS clients are using IDs that might not be known to the Active Directory or LDAP servers if a centralised external ID mapping is not in place or does not cove...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

GPFS Pagepool enhancement

Nvidia wants an option to pagepool. Layer on top of existing static pagepool, the ability to have a dynamic layer of pagepool while keeping existing pagepool static. Similar to Linux page-cache for caching data, and a similar option equivalent of ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Metadata performance on a busy filesystem is poor

Spectrum Scale does not prioritize small I/O, notably metadata access, over large block I/O. This means that a busy filesystem, particularly one with many large blocks to transfer, suffers from poor metadata performance. The user experience is tha...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

Contention on client on mutex BufDescCacheObjMutex when multiple local processes access same file

When Running DIII-D tests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIII-D_(tokamak) ) on Spectrum Scale we see when adding more clients contention on the refered mutex. Details on https://jazz07.rchland.ibm.com:21443/jazz/web/projects/GPFS#action=com.ibm.te...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Add afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce parameters to ISS REST API fileset endpoints

With ISS 5.0.5"Data migration by using AFM migration enhancements" was introduced. And with it two new fileset parameters afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce. In 5.1 you introduced these parameters in the REST API GET fileset calls but not in the PO...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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