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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

AFM - Update AFMConfig map without service disruption

When NFS Home servers are brought offline for maintenance, we will have automation that updates automatically update the AFM Config map relationship. AFM needs to honor this updated map non-disruptively. Currently this is a disruptive event where ...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Planned for future release

Add reasoning to hidden mmhealth events

When applying gpfs updates it sometime happens that new TIPS events appear. Some of these tips recomment to carefully check the situation and maybe hide the event. It would be really helpful if you could add a user specifiend comment th the hide c...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Planned for future release

Scale GUI Dashboard Nodes by Latency

Add the ability to "Cherry Pick" and display in the Scale GUI the top nodes by latency. This could be on the statistics widget or a new widget. Add the granularity of client nodes, NSD nodes, nodes by nodeclass XYZ, or custom picked nodes. Additio...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Planned for future release

Enhance RAS to add a mmhealth threshold update Funktion in mmhealth framework

Currently to change a parameter in the mmhealth thresholds this is only possible with delete and add this same rule. This is error-prone to change only on parameter.The support enhance the servicability to justify one parameter in the threshold ru...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Planned for future release

Support QLC drives in ECE

Currently,SSS 6000 is support TLC+QLC tiering solution. ECE didn't announce the similar feature. The trends is mixed TLC+QLC in one cluster as tiering solution. The shortage of TLC flash drives has also driven the adoption of tiered storage archit...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Planned for future release

Deadlock Prevention During NFS Failures

Summary: Prevent system hangs caused by NFS failures. Description: During NFS failures, PcacheWrite/Read operations can become stuck, leading to system-wide deadlocks. Impact: System instability Blocked workloads Recovery complexity Ask: Introduce...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Planned for future release

HDFS Transparency - add dfs.namenode.handler.count exhaustion in mmhealth

Currently, NameNode handler exhaustion (defined by dfs.namenode.handler.count) is not surfaced in mmhealth . Since we rely on mmhealth as our primary telemetry source, this lack of visibility prevents us from accurately detecting and responding to...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Planned for future release

MFA Support for Spectrum Scale CLI

We had the request to enhance the security modell in spectrum scale for mm cli cmd to support multi factor authentication (MFA). The implementation should support the current well accepted standard of RFC 6238.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Planned for future release

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