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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Report and Update Quota's better

Spectrum Scale has commands of mmlsquota, mmedquota, mmrepquota and mmsetquota to update and control quotas. It would be helpful to be able to copy quotas between users, filesets and groups in a flexable fasion, both within the same filesystem (wh...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

fine-grained performance monitoring for protocol

The customer raised this requirement in their workshop in 2018:1. for protocol/NFS, PingAn could monitor the throughput of each exported points. PingAn raised the request to monitor the throughput from each clients to see which client is taking mo...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Migrate object storage to tape

For the upcoming object interface in Spectrum Scale it should be possible to migrate object data to tape.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

NFS V4.2 Support

We need support for NFS V4.2 On the one hand, NFS V4.0 face major issues, and on the other hand in our use case we could strongly benefit from the new 4.2 features like "server-side-copy" and "sparse files"
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support openSUSE as a GPFS client

SLES is an officially supported Linux distribution for installing GPFS/Scale (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=gpfs-software-requirements). openSUSE is binary compatible with SLES as of version 15.3 (see https://www.suse.com/c...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale (GPFS)

Our HPC infrastructure is to have a central Spectrum Scale storage solution. all our HPC systems do a native GPFS remote cluster mount.Due to changes in the HPC market we are looking (and also other sides we think) especially at ARM based compute ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

mmdsh quiet mode

mmdsh currently prints ssh banner messages in the output which is overlapping with the actual cmd output, it will be nice if mmdsh internally uses a quiet mode equalent to ssh -q to ignore the banner messages in the mmdsh cmd output.
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Allowing to mapping CES address to fixed interface

The current design is alis CES ip to one of interface or the interface has the fixed ip in the same subnet. This is not flexibile and will wast of fixed ip. Customer hope to support static CES IP mapping that can assign CES IP to dedicated etherne...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Decrease memory requirement in CES.

The Scale FAQ list CES node need 128GB memory. It's huge to most of SMB scenarios. Most of Customer often have 50/100/200 SMB/NFS connections per CES ndoe pair. Customer hope to support 16G/32G/64G/128G memory models in CES node. If it's no, custo...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Management API Version 2 should support SMB exportacls

The Spectrum Scale management API Version 2 includes commands for managing SMB exports, like Create/Modify/Delete an SMB share.These command represent the 'mmsmb export' cli commands. The API Version 2 must provide an equivalent for the 'mmsmb exp...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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