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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Distribution via Package Repository

Today Spectrum Scale ships self extracting images. These are large, usually only 25% of the image content is used, and a special install procedure is needed.These images are quickly superseded by new ptf versions, sometimes certain versions are wi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Allow acknowledging of host problems on Spectrum Scale GUI

System: Spectrum Scale GUIActor: Admins monitoring the system The GUI is our primary way of monitoring the health and performance of the system. When a worker node goes down, which is common in a large HPC system, the health of the filesystems sho...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Redirect GUI DB to a different directory

This RFE is to allow users for setting the PG_DATA environment in Scale GUI for redirecting the database outside the root directory of the system.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Overlay / Namespace support information (Singularity Containers)

Singularity (https://sylabs.io/singularity) is a container runtime commonly used on HPC systems that include GPFS filesystems. We are trying to understand the level of support in GPFS for overlay mounts (upperdir & lowerdir), and namespaces (i...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Changing dynamic pagepool can cause the system to hang

The proposed changes to prevent system hang are as follows: 1. The code checks for available memory and if the available memory is less than the requested value, return the value users can change 2. As it takes time to allocate memory, the code re...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

Rolling upgrade of CES protocol node with object services

Current operation: Because object operations interact with all nodes, all object nodes must be at the same level. Therefore, object services need to be stopped across the cluster for the duration of the upgrade. This RFE is for allowing rolling up...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow more than 20 threshold rules in the GUI (mmhealth)

You can only create a maximum of 20 threshold rules, either through the Spectrum Scale GUI or directly with the mmhealth command. This limit should be increased (e.g. to a minimum of 50)
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Support https natively on S3 objects in protocol nodes

This RFE is opened in behalf of General Motors. Vendors are required to support secure http i.e https for Object Store as one of the protocols provided in Spectrum Scale protocol nodes. Currently the product does not support https.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Provide a changelog for Scale releases

Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Support SMB Persistent Handles

Hi, When trying to copy files using rsync via SMB shares exported by Spectrum Scale, we are experiencing errors after session disconnection\ces node failovers. currently, scale does not provide persistent\durable file handles. we are kindly asking...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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