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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Intel Omnipath support in Spectrum Scale

I'm just wondering if native Omnipath verbs support is on the roadmap for Spectrum Scale (GPFS).
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Support GPFS on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and future LTS releases

Support Ubuntu LTS releases in addition to Debian
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

GPFS Pagepool enhancement

Nvidia wants an option to pagepool. Layer on top of existing static pagepool, the ability to have a dynamic layer of pagepool while keeping existing pagepool static. Similar to Linux page-cache for caching data, and a similar option equivalent of ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Extend readReplicaPolicy and "failure group" to nodes, to help localize reads in a stretched cluster.

With a 2-site "stretched cluster", readReplicaPolicy can be used to choose which replica is used for reading, except... our options don't really handle complex network topologies. The "fastest" setting is often not a good choice because network la...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Create or Change CES Exports without restarting Ganesha

According to the ISS documentation, a change on a CES NFS Export, like adding an additional IP causes ISS to restart Ganesha on each CES Node. Since Ganesha also supports dynamically adding exports via DBUS, without causing restarts, we request th...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Generalized quality of service (QoS) user processes

For my customer who has about 30 project groups and requires a guaranteed I/O QoS for different groups of users or processes, Spectrum Scale should have its QoS capability generalized in the following manner: 1.) Define multiple classes, not just ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Enhance mmkeyserv to make configs possible with CA signed Rest-API Certs.

Currently to define the mmkeyserv rkm Config in an CA-Trusted GKLM Environment where the https/Rest-API Certs are CA signed the configuration are not possibly. This is a security flow and can not accepted in the area of cybercrime. The current pos...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

GUI option fo enable maintenance mode and do not send alert

During node maintenance, like code upgrade, OS upgrade, rebooting, client would like to have an option to put the node or cluster in maintenance mode. By setting this flag, the SNMP traps and SNMP emails would not be sent.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Metadata performance on a busy filesystem is poor

Spectrum Scale does not prioritize small I/O, notably metadata access, over large block I/O. This means that a busy filesystem, particularly one with many large blocks to transfer, suffers from poor metadata performance. The user experience is tha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

Multi-socket TCPIP for gpfs clients

Customer has asked that we change the way GPFS clients connect to the server. Instead of single single stream to a single socket they would like to multi-stream TCPIP for gpfs clients, so they wouldn't be limited to a single socket (and in turn, l...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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