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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Graceful failure of AFM recall timeouts when using AFM-NSD + Support for offline file awareness with AFM (related issues)

Any client using AFM-NSD Caching with a home storage repository that uses DMAPI aware Hierarchical Storage Management is at risk. AFM-NSD has no ability to gracefully respond when an AFM Cache requst to a recall filesfrom home times out. AFM-NFS u...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow to ignore out_of_memory health issues

We have users running memory-intensive research programs that regularly trigger out_of_memory situations. These clear up pretty quickly. However, the system monitor (mmsysmon) retain the out_of_memory information until the affected host reboots. A...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale to support quota management on external Storage pool.

Request Spectrum Scale to support quota management on external Storage pool.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

FTP and HTTP CES support

Support FTP and HTTP access on CES protocol nodes.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes.

Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes. Similar to mmdiag –iohist, or better - output json to be gathered by api's.Monitor the block-size read/write per applicationMonitor the IO pattern per application – rand/read/seq etc.Monitor pa...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Remove distinction between private and public IP address ranges

Remove the distinction between processing for private IP address ranges 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0 and the other one and public IP address ranges. Process the private subnet ranges the same way public IP address ranges are processed. Remove the undocum...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Improve ACL management in Spectrum Scale

Currently, ACL management in Scale is overly difficult. For instance, the mmputacl command requires the entire ACL to be reapplied, rather than just having the ability to add, delete, or modify existing entries. Additionally, inheritance does not ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

To develop a report that shows overall capacity consumed per user that adds up local and offline files and versions

Current quota management on Spectrum Scale only considers consumed space of local files. With the introduction of features such Transparent Cloud Tiering for COS, it is needed a control over the space users are consuming for both local and offline...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

support for runnign VMs in GPFS (see TS003291090)

See TS003291090 If a KVM host runs GPFS client and mounts a filesystem from a gpfs cluster. The KVM host runs a VM which uses a container file stored in the same file system under a independent fileset named kvm01 which is under the root fileset. ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Security: Spectrum Scale read-only access on client nodes

We would like to distribute software using a Spectrum Scale filesystem to compute nodes in an HPC environment but want to make sure malicous users cannot modify files which would enable them to spread malware. In NFS environments this can be estab...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration