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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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CES event callback support

There are no events for CES that can be used with `mmaddcallback`. If I run `mmhealth node eventlog`, I see lots of events, such as nfs_active, nfs_in_grace, handle_network_problem_info, nodestatechange_info, ces_network_ips_down, etc. It would be...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Increase number of dependent filesets

Guardant Health is using Kubernetes to control their workflow. They will have thousands of jobs and they will need thausands of PVCs. The projection is that they will go over the 10,000 fileset limit in 2022. The target for 2022 would be at least ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

In the Future, adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 based on PCIe 6 or CXL 4.0 based on PCIe 7 to the Spectrum Scale to integrate it with Nvidia DGX ( when it enabled the CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0

This is a necessary idea to develop a new version of Basic POD or SuperPOD which can use Nvidia DGX, Nvidia DPUs, Intel IPU, Intel FPGA , Xilinx FPGA and other CXL enabled Accelerators. We can use this super POD for advanced Cyber security solutio...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

File Audit Logging x Object/S3

With Scale we have FAL for NFS and CIFS, for Object/S3 we have the capability to have the mapping for the SWIFT API user only and not with the specific user or application that is submitting the request (put, get, etc). Our client is asking thew c...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block

Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block. A data transfer being done by one customer does work fast but the other user can't even ls specifics directories.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

REST API should support managing fileset access control for remote mounts

Customer wants to change which filesets their compute cluster has access to, based on which group of users are using it. This is to protect groups of users to see each others files, even for root. They will implement filesystem encryption to prote...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Fully decompress files on read

Allow a flag to be set on a file, fileset or filesystem to have files fully decompress on read.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

When using Protocol nodes, the export IPs should be the only one to allow mounting shares

With the use of Protocol Nodes, the CES requires IPs for export shares. However, even having the IP specific for share, the internal IPs (NODE IPs), which are used for administration only, also allow the NFS Mounts. The request is to isolate the n...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

mmchconfig maxblocksize is not dynamically changeable

PMR TS001057386.Spectrum Scale in Version 5 has a new maxblocksize default. But to Change these for old Clusters all Daemon must be down to change these parameter. The request here mmchconfig maxblocksize should be dynamicaly changeable without co...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

alert on vdisk usage threshold

On ESS, we need an mmhealth alert for full (and nearly full) vdisks/NSDS There is currently warnings (default 80% full) and errors (default 90% full) for both filesystem and pools. This is good. The problem occurs when a customer at a later time e...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration