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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Enable mmapplypolicy function via REST-API

Client has one self-service REST-API based application developed for providing SMB/NFS shares to their clients. They have different storage pools, and their clients can define which tier they want the data to be stored, and also select over time t...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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

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 ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Object Support Currency

We had many request to implement a object Storage-Protokoll in our Company. We plan to implement Scale with Object-Support and want to enable s3. But today in the 5.0.x Code Stream only Openstack Pike are here available. Our Request are to go fowa...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Increase Quorum Node MAximum limit from 8 to 9

Required for HSBC : Scale 5.1.x on Linux on x86. Stretch cluster across 3 x phys sites. Client has failure tolerence requirement for Scale stretch cluster to tolerate as follows: Scale must tolerate a single site failure AND a single quorum node f...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Extend readReplicaPolicy and "failure group" to nodes, to help localize reads in a stretched cluster.

With a 2-site "stretched cluster", readReplicaPolicy can be used to choose which replica is used for reading, except... our options don't really handle complex network topologies. The "fastest" setting is often not a good choice because network la...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

Give sysadmin insight into the inner workings of the NSD server machinery, in particular the queue dynamics

Enhance mmdiag to provide visibility into NSD queues. Right now, the only way to look at the threads and queues on an NSD server is "mmfsadm dump NSD" - and this command will either hang or result in a server crash. This information is critical to...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Enhance security for remote Spectrum Scale mounts

When a Spectrum Scale filesystem is mounted to a client (or a remote cluster), the entire filesystem is available. This is a potential security concern.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

HDFS transparency: Support Certificates with 4096 key length

As security requirements rise more and more, it is essential to support for HDFS transparency certificates with 4096 key length instead of only 2048.
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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