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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Expand the number of supported Protocol Clusters that can be configured on a IBM Spectrum Scale Storage Cluster

Expand support for the current limitation of one storage cluster and up to five protocol clusters to one storage cluster and up to ten protocol clusters.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

AFM Azure Blob direct support

For data exchange, data access from multiple sites and also access of data from within Azure we would like to use Spectrum Scale AFM connected to a Azure blob similar as connected to S3 storage. Currently this will require a S3 / Azure converter l...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

lowInodes Callback for filesets

The noDiskspace callback is triggered on several occasions, one being an inodespace running out of inodes. At that point n time the filespace is already full and users see "no space on device" errors. We'd need a similar callback that triggers ear...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

GUI accounts that are restricted to specific filesystems/filesets

The ability to create GUI/Management API accounts that are restricted to one of more filesystems/filesets in the cluster.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

mmhealth should complain about NSDs which have lost one path

Listing the NSDs shows that some of themhave only one path available. One of the two servers of a building block does not see the Volume:[root@justnsd01a ~]# mmlsnsd -f cesSharedRoot -X Disk name NSD volume ID Device Devtype Node name Remarks ----...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Support TLS 1.3 for use with IBM SKLM

Industry is requiring stronger current encryption levels.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Capacity quota support for HSM managed file systems

We have two storage scale file systems which are HSM managed using Spectrum Protect for space Management. In total we are storing ~40 PB user data on tape here. Each group has been granted an amount of files and capacity for all our file systems. ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

NFS protocol nodes upgrade without disruption

Customer is having NFS being autheticated my MS AD. In this case SMB service needs to be installed and according to documentation, NFS outage is done when upgrading protocol nodes. Customer is requesting non-disruptive NFS protocol nodes upgrade a...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add GPFS Fileset quota metrics/monitoring

Product: Spectrum Scale quota monitoring (specially for filesets) We use GPFS fileset quota. These fileset quota is only monitored internally by the GPFS GUI - if the GPFS GUI is installed. If the fileset quota exceeded, the system will give you n...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Allow acknowledging of host problems on Spectrum Scale GUI

System: Spectrum Scale GUIActor: Admins monitoring the system The GUI is our primary way of monitoring the health and performance of the system. When a worker node goes down, which is common in a large HPC system, the health of the filesystems sho...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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