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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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NDMP support in native GPFS

GPFS does not natively support NDMP.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

[BDA] Cache control via runtime policy engine

If caching could be controlled by the policy engine, the user could intelligently control that valuable resource with respect to their known workloads / data types.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Need to be able to trace GPFS with small overhead

The available trace feature of GPFS requires lots of system resource, to be able to enable such trace on a production system, a light weight trace option is required.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

GPFS filespace update

GPFS runs the mmbackup which does not update the backup start and backup end parameters on the tsm client node. This parameter is updated when a regular node runs a backup. The backup for a GPFS node runs a selected backup and does not update the ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

AFM support for immutable and appendOnly mode in GPFS

The customer requests a design change because there is a valid use case where they require setting files to immutable or appendonnly on the IW cache (to prevent tampering of human genome information stored in such files) which means that the files...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition 需要支持roce组网

很多项目客户要求支持roce, 已和IBM沟通答复如下: roce现在有很多限制,需要我们自己验证过,然后提RPQ,测试通过才可以使用 请问当前roce的限制主要在哪些方面,我们需要测是哪些场景呢才算通过呢,谢谢
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration