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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Backpressure for virtual disk I/O to prevent throughput and IOPS overload to avoid "Forcing kernel panic to clear hung I/O".

    When a cluster reboots, the recovery process can generate a lot of I/O ( high throughput and IOPS ) which might hit the limits of the virtual disk. And unlike physical disks, when virtual disks get overwhelmed, we can see I/O hang for up to second...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    we need an a way to avoid such NFS System Hang IO when any of protocol nodes restarted and ganesha go in grace period time ...i suggest to enhance in way of ganesha work to avoid clients that connected to other protocol nodes to affect with this time and only cliets that connected to this rebooted node hange in time of grace period until VIP move to another availabe node ...As we have a Big cluster with 6 nodes of protocol nodes and when one of them go down all banking sectors affected with this time of grace period ..hope to find us a solution for this long time problem desing.

    because not all system will go down and only clients that connected to protocol node affected one will disconnect only and other will still working fine. all mega projects that use Spectrum scale and to avoid SPOF description when one of protocol ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Support user- or node-level isolation mechanisms, such as sub-directory mounts and the ability to collect and examine usage statistics at the job level.

    We have a large RFP where the proposed file system must have user- or node-level isolation mechanisms, such as sub-directory mounts and the ability to collect and examine usage statistics at the job level. We have a strong competition from DDN so ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    SpectrumScale - Stability & Observability issues

    We had numerous issues on DataStage, while there were no issues I could see from any CNSA kubernetes objects, CSI drivers, cluster, remote cluster, filesystem, operator logs or events in any IBM namespace. I could see that some datastage pods were...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Improve the performance of small I/O for large files when AFM was enable

    I have two storage scale cluster with AFM enable,cluster A as Primary for production,B as secondary for backup,my production cluster performance Seriously degradation whe using small I/O for large files（In most cases, there is up to a thirtyfold d...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Ability to alter the audit log retention period

    Hello! We recently came across the need to reduce the audit log retention period of a storage scale system to save some space and we realized that the only way to do that is to disable and re-enable the audit log feature altogether. As an end user...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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