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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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

Client Supend/Maintenance Mode

Add the possibility to put a GPFS client node in a suspend mode or maintenance mode.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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

Enhance security for remote Spectrum Scale mounts

When a Spectrum Scale filesystem is mounted to a client (or a remote cluster), the entire filesystem is available. This is a potential security concern.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

GPFS 5.0 CES NFS show NFS Clients which actually mount the exported filesystem (like Linux showmount)

We use Spectrum Scale Protocols 5 with NFS Ganesha.When exporting a filesystem to several NFS Clients (e. g. * or other), we could not see which NFS Client actually mount the exported filesystem.In Kernel based NFS you can use the command "showmou...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

CES Protocol Node support for IPv6

Ability support IPv6 on the Protocol nodes.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Increase Quorum Node MAximum limit from 8 to 9

Required for HSBC : Scale 5.1.x on Linux on x86. Stretch cluster across 3 x phys sites. Client has failure tolerence requirement for Scale stretch cluster to tolerate as follows: Scale must tolerate a single site failure AND a single quorum node f...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

RAS Enhancements for Spectrum Scale mmchnsd

In an today 7/24 work area and the use of spectrum scale as a general data plane there are no timeframe to unmount or stop a hole Spectrum scale cluster. If a customer has the requirement to change the nsd-server -nodes because of growing or chang...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Allow Spectrum Scale Adds and Deletes via List with individual node errors

mmaddnode/mmdelnode current behavior when submitting a "NodeFile" is if one node is in the cluster or fails to add/delete for any reason then the whole list fails. This behavior seems to be the case with most of the mm commands that accept -N <...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Encryption - tool to check health status of all configured encryption servers

When Encryption is configured on a file system. the key server must be available to allow user file access. When the key server fails, data access is lost. We need a tools that can be run to check key server health, check retrieval of keys, and co...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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