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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Scale Storage Native Driver for Mainframe zOS

    We are trying to get access to the mainframe storage on the midrange end to allow Data and AI tools like Content Aware Storage and Watson Knowledge Catalog. Following are the gaps: 1. There is no native driver for zOS. Current support is limited t...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    AFM - Caching of local filesystem

    Allow AFM to cache data from a "home" of a local filesystem mounted on a node. This could be a local filesystem on a single node or a shared filesystem such as HDFS fuse mounted or other mounted POSIX filesystem such as a Lustre/ZFS/XFS/etc...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Update the mmexpelnode command to accept a nodelist file for the "-N" option

    During file system issues in a NSD Server Cluster it is sometimes required to expel all nodes from remote clusters so that file system recovery can be preformed. Shutting down or stopping GPFS on remote clusters takes too much time with very large...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Update the mmexpelnode command to have a "-C <remote cluster>" option to expel all nodes from a remote cluster

    During file system issues in a NSD Server Cluster it is sometimes required to expel all nodes from remote clusters so that file system recovery can be preformed. Shutting down or stopping GPFS on remote clusters takes too much time with very large...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Allow multiple targets in an AFM-fileset (AFM-S3 only perhaps)

    It would be good if we could have data coming from multiple sources in an AFM fileset. Perhaps a client has data that needs to be presented from NFS and S3. The application would have to talk to two different filesets to get data. The current use ...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Under review

    Directory method Installation and Upgrade support of scale deployment through open source ansible scale roles.

    Directory method Installation and Upgrade support of scale deployment through open source ansible scale roles.
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Add reasoning to hidden mmhealth events

    When applying gpfs updates it sometime happens that new TIPS events appear. Some of these tips recomment to carefully check the situation and maybe hide the event. It would be really helpful if you could add a user specifiend comment th the hide c...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    gpfs.snap command and --sosreport option

    If the gpfs.snap command contains the "--sosreport" option, you must be able to specify the node that collects the sosreport. But it doesn't seem to have that feature at the moment. (GPFS 5.2.2.0) When using the "--sosreport" option, could you pro...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    AFM - Connect to non-standard NFS port

    Add the ability for NFS server/export to be used as a "home" on a non-standard configurable port. This should capability should also be in the AFM parallel data transfer mappings.
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    GUI : capacity information consistency

    Different information/ mismatch between ‘used capacity’ and ‘total capacity’. Monitoring -> Files -> Filesets -> view details -> used capacity Due to the fact, that two file copies are made on the filesystem on ESS storage cluster , th...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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