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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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AFM for Object Storage Support

We have a large set of science data that we save on our IBM Spectrum Scale system and to be able to reduce the amount of spinning fast disk are we using IBM Spectrum Archive to extend our storage to tape. But now does our data science people ask u...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale AFM support for GCP

AFM file/object copy to GCP. Better: use AFM to TIER to GCP
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance Monitoring Capabilities by adding new Performance-Metric

Our Load on Ganesha NFS drives the Services into stale conditions where manual interventions are required and possibly tuning measures needed. Currently there is no way to figure what Limits are hit within Ganesha and logging seems not to help a l...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add Support for Hardware Load Balancers like the F5

We are a large bank and a large enterprise customer. Not all Open-Source software is supported. HA-Proxy is one of those not supported. But we still need to Load balance the GPFS GUI. This is a requirement when hosting Scale in OCP. We need to pla...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Enhance information provided in case of errors flushing file data from pagepool to persistent storage

In case of failures in that area, file data may be corrupted. Providing the information which files are affected omits the effort of manually identifying them by expensive scans of the file system.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Lessen Spectrum Scale CNSA's pods dependency on running as super user (root)

Today as of Scale version 5.1.1.4, some of the Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) containers for running Scale on Openshift have the need to run as super-user (root). Although it's understandable from the multi-decade history of Scale itself a...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GPFS command confliction list

Our client uses IBM Spectrum Scale for NAS. Scale has many GPFS commands which have "mm" prefix, and some commands conflict each other.We want to know the conflict list on KnowledgeCenter for their daily operation.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

GPFS client support larger memory address space

Currently GPFS client can use upto 1TB address space, but now GPU servers already configured with 2TB memory, and 3T, 4T memory in future. the address space below 1TB might be used by vfio, for nic, gpu passthrough, so GPFS client has very little ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Command to check compressed usage size for each fileset quickly

We are performing IBM Spectrum Scale compression on each fileset on daily basis through gpfs policies. The df command is not showing the accurate usage for each fileset and only du shows the actual usage. But since du usually takes long time to pr...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Improve AFM to handle hard links correctly

As per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.2?topic=limitations-afm-afm-dr support for hard links in AFM is very constrained. This is especially problematic for the AFM data migration use case outlined here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/s...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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