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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Improve DIO on sparse files to avoid E-HOLE error

The customer is using Db2 pureScale and allocates tablespace using preallocation.But there are enormous performance issue was caused by the DIO thrashing ( frequent switching back and forth between DIO and Buffered IO ) due to E_HOLE errors.We ana...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

CES support on SLES 12 SP3 Little Endian

Recompile the CES packages to support SLES 12 SP3 on Power 8 and newer processors. There is already support in place for RHEL, but some customers are using SLES as their primary OS primarily due to SAP Hana installations and there is no support fo...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

implement ability to remote mount a fileset instead of a full filesystem
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Seamlessy convert subtree into (independent) fileset

add a command to convert a subtree to an independent fileset seamlessly (without interrupting access for users) and - as a bonus - vice-versa
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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