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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Support for RoW on snapshots

Redirect on Write (RoW) is a less space consuming option for snapshots (at potential expense of more workload required for deletions).
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

nsdInlineWriteMax >8K

Dear developers Please enable feature nsdInlineWriteMax >8K for version 5.0.1.x with RDMA enabled. We are using it for small files writing. It's working for version 4.2.3.x Regards Alexander
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

GPFS for Linux aarch64

Publish GPFS / Spectrum Scale for Linux on aarch64 aarch64 is supported by all Linux Versions (Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat) but not by gpfs
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Add support for Subject Alternate Name in certificate request through the GUI.

Chrome 58 and above now checks for the presence of the Subject Alternate Name in the certificate. If it isn't found, the certificate is deemed to be insecure or broken. The new GUI certificate request feature should ask the user for the SAN name d...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Make mmsdrrestore command able to restore Zimon configuration files

The files /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonCollector.cfg and /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonSensors.cfg are needed for the pmcollector and pmsensors daemons.When a node is re-installed we use the mmsdrrestore command to restore the GPFS node configuration. Unfortunately ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

GUI for Spectrum Scale MMBACKUP function requested from MD Anderson Cancer Center

Spectrum Scale new RFE being pursued by Tram, Gabe, Jonathan and Raul, via Scale Case TS002279140 and Crit Sit AB1835.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Signing of Spectrum scale modules

Requesting signing of spectrum scale V5 and higher, reason when installing gpfs on SuSE SLES 15 SP1 cluster fail to be active due to, tracedev.ko module not signed. Latest SLES 15 has a security feature secure boot, that deny unsigned modules to b...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Scale, dosen't access to the secondary Active Directory(AD), in spite of AD is Active-Active redundant configuration

*Re-Submitted from ID:134412Please cancel the request of 134412. We are facing to the following situation and our client strongly request to resolve this issue as soon as possible. We think that the function of SS about keeping session with AD sho...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Confusing status message 'mmlspdisk'

My Client submits the following:After carrier release the status is even more confusing [DIARSS root@ems1-xcat ~]# mmlspdisk all --not-okpdisk: replacementPriority = 6.77 name = "e1d2s02" device = "//essio32.ib.rsshpc1/dev/sdpe(notEnabled/closed),...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Provide efficient read-only file-level snapshots

Today, mmclone can be used to effectively provide a read-only snapshot of a single file (mv origfile snapfile ; mmclone snap snapfile ; mmclone copy snapfile origfile). But to clean up the snapshot when it is no longer needed requires mmclone spli...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration