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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Support Scale Client running on VMware ESXi 8.x

According to the support page, VMware ESX 7.x is supoorted but not ESXi8.x . Table 72. VMware support matrix on VM guest https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#virtual also please provide GDS(GPUDirect Storage ) support informatio...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for dynamic expansion of each constituent volume in Storage Scale GPFS's File System, especially in combination with Db2 PureScale on Public Cloud.

It is necessary to support dynamic expansion of each constituent volume itself, rather than GPFS expansion by adding volumes. Adding volumes has a limit on the number of expansions. The method of adding a volume larger than the existing volume an...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Preventive alert for cluster key certificate expiration

According to the recent flash " IBM Storage Scale: An expired cluster key prevents nodes from connecting to the Storage Scale cluster resulting in admin commands failing to update the cluster configuration.https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/71...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add debug kernel support to GPFS

Hi I was trying to start gpfs on a debug rhel kernel for kmemleak debugging It failed due to being unsupported. Can this support be added in future GPFS versios?
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Accelerate re-balance actions when adding new ECE nodes into existing RG

Partner was opened two cases about expanding ECE nodes to existing RG. The re-balance progress was very slowly. The action was last for 3 months when adding 3 new ECE nodes into existing 5 ECE nodes topology.This is not a acceptable solution to cu...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add Broadcom SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in Scale ECE

One of OEM partners are planning to replace existing SAS 3108 HBA with SAS 3808/3908 HBAs. But we didn't find SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the support list of ECE 5.1.9. The partner hope IBM can support SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the next release. They can pr...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Process and automation to simplify the patching and software update of large node count clusters

Managaing the the currency of Spectrum/Storage Scale systems are difficult when you have over 1000 nodes within the cluster in question. The request is for the process and automation for both the local repository and cluster endpoints where upon r...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support more than 15 remote clusters with fileset access control

Customer needs strict separation of filesets accessible on different compute clusters, and want to utilize RFAC to control what view each of the compute clusters has access to in the file system. Customer was then surprised when they hit the limit...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

List Fileset Capacity of Data in Different Pools

Using the mmlsfileset command, GUI, or both - add ability to see what is the capacity of the fileset on differnet pools. If a filesystem has different pools ie. system, tier1, tier2, etc... using the mmlsfileset command get the percentage of the f...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance mmperfmon sensors to generate DF statistics also for .snapshots in Filesystem and filset structure

In the area of Cybercrime we are in preparation of using saveguarded snapshots in our scale based Storage Protect environment. Because of the usage of immutable snapshots we had no sensor that generate space utilisation statistics of snapshots in ...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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