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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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mmdf needs an option to not reach out to all remote clients

On our very large environment, mmdf will take hours to run. This is apparently because the ESS cluster will reach out to our thousands of remote clients to verify accuracy of its statistics. Worse the entire system slows down while this is occurri...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Network resiliency enhancement - need mechanism for prioritizing control traffic over data traffic via QOS/PFC when RDMA is not enabled.

In a heavy workload situations, some clients are removed from the cluster as peer nodes are not able to communicate as heart-beat/control traffic stuck behind data traffic. Also explore, a dedicated VLAN(s) option for Control and Data traffic.
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Provide auth and security status of connections via standard mm commands

It would useful to have the auth and security status of connections/mounts via standard supported mm commands (mmdiag|mmlsmount).
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Increase limit for number of independent filesets

Limiting the number of independent filesets to 1000 is a showstopper. Some features we are using require independent filesets (We are using --per-fileset-quota and --filesetdf. We are also considering using fileset snapshots for backup on this sys...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

ECE edition 5.1.9 version support 256 storage node in one cluster

as title, we need 5.1.9 version（LTS）support 256 Necessary
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

Increase SMB Share Limit in Scale Cluster

The current Limitations for Spectrum Scale SMB are listed as follows: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.5/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r05.doc/bl1ins_smbclients.htm "Spectrum Scale can host a maximum of 1000 SMB shares" needs t...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support Soft-RoCE drivers

As 100/200 Gigabit RoCE technologies mature, not all clients are able to leverage the same "hard" RoCE HBAs and associated drivers such as Mellanox, which is the currently supported device driver. This request recognizes there are some HBAs that m...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Enhance mmperfmon sensors to generate DF statistics also for .snapshots in Filesystem and filset structure

In the area of Cybercrime we are in preparation of using saveguarded snapshots in our scale based Storage Protect environment. Because of the usage of immutable snapshots we had no sensor that generate space utilisation statistics of snapshots in ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Snapshot directory to show valid creation date

When we do ls -l on the .snapshots directory from NFS client, or GPFS client.We see strange dates which are not related to the snapshots : he dates on the snapshots directories look strange. [root@ems4 @GMT-2023.12.26-02.00.55]# mmlssnapshot gpfsO...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Snapshot policy to check number of snapashots

Sometimes there is a problem when the policy try to create snapshot - like mmlssnapshot timeout - and this skip the creation of snapshots - and also deletion of the old snapshot by policy- this means that the older snapshot will not be delete by t...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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