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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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

Contention on client on mutex BufDescCacheObjMutex when multiple local processes access same file

When Running DIII-D tests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIII-D_(tokamak) ) on Spectrum Scale we see when adding more clients contention on the refered mutex. Details on https://jazz07.rchland.ibm.com:21443/jazz/web/projects/GPFS#action=com.ibm.te...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Add afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce parameters to ISS REST API fileset endpoints

With ISS 5.0.5"Data migration by using AFM migration enhancements" was introduced. And with it two new fileset parameters afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce. In 5.1 you introduced these parameters in the REST API GET fileset calls but not in the PO...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Enable mmapplypolicy function via REST-API

Client has one self-service REST-API based application developed for providing SMB/NFS shares to their clients. They have different storage pools, and their clients can define which tier they want the data to be stored, and also select over time t...
almost 4 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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

possibility to change the server or ip with mmkeyserv of the GKLM Server Definitions

There seems to be a Gap to reconfigure the gklm mmkeyserv server configuration on the scale cluster if there are changes in the IP or DNS-Names on the same GKLM-Servers. The only possible Solution to delete the current config and reestablish these...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

gpfs.snap option to add case number and upload to IBM

It would be nice to have an option in gpfs.snap that would take a case number and then upload the snap output once it has been created. Would remove some manual steps... think of how much collective time would be saved with this feature!! -Bryan
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

RAS improvements - mmhealth nvme status information

In regard to the nvme status information it is desired to have mmhealth to monitor the "Optimal Link state" and "Optimal LBS Format" (RTC Issue 267159)Most important is an alert in the monitoring when the status is away from "optimal".
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

AFM NFSv4 Support

We are seeing more and more mandates from customers in fed and commercial that require support for NFSv4 in order for products to be authorized onto the enclave. This include NIST mandates for federal customers and commercial compliance regulation...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Documentation and Error messages improvement

Overall Documentation and error messages needs improvement (IBM needs to ensure they are at least all listed).
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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