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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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support pools of varying block sizes in a single filesystem (as well as > 32 subblocks)

Support differing block sizes for different pools within a given filesystem (allowing for >32 subblocks on new pools created within existing filesystems created prior to scale 5.0).
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Enable support for signing kernel modules for the GPFS portability layer

We need a way to have GPFS client code to support signing the GPFS portability layer kernel modules so it is possible to run with secureboot enabled. In the FAQ it is listed to be disabled or handled manualy. We would request that the Spectrum Sca...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Enhance REST API to GET/SET all availabe Filesystem Parameter i.e --auto-inode-limit

CNSA requires filesystemes with option --auto-inode-limit to be enabled. That Option is currently not available via REST API "get /scalemgmt/v2/filesystems/{filesystemName}". We utilize the REST API to verify all required storage parameter before ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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

RAS improvements - "mmlsnvmestatus" also check "lbaf", "ms" and "rp"

It is desired to have "mmlsnvmestatus" also check "lbaf", "ms" and "rp" (Spectrum Scale ECE, RTC Issue 267159)
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GUI improvement to policies

1. Often we see that if the policy gets slightly complicated, the ILM editor bails out, and only gives us the possibility of editing the policy file directly. The policy editor should be much more robust, so that it can be used for more than the s...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow more than 20 threshold rules in the GUI (mmhealth)

You can only create a maximum of 20 threshold rules, either through the Spectrum Scale GUI or directly with the mmhealth command. This limit should be increased (e.g. to a minimum of 50)
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Parallelization/enhancement of pool migrations of individual large files

When running migrations between different pools often it appears the tail latency of the ILM run is dictated by a small number of large files This seems to be due to the pool migration of any individual file being a single threaded activity that i...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

SpectrumScale should be able to natively mount at any point in the name space of a filesystem using GPFS client

GPFS/SpectrumScale using the native GPFS client cannot mount at any location in a filesystem in a multi-tenanted environment in any way other than at the root level, exposing the entire filesystem to a client. GPFS should ideally offer the ability...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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