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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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.
over 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...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

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

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

Quota management delegation

I was discussing removal of root use for commands with ibm dev Germany and this came up. Need the ability to delegate quota management to different groups of users on large scale file systems. You can have different admins for different teams resp...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

LDAP enhancements related to RFC2307 mappings on Spectrum Scale/GPFS Windows

Currently, GPFS Windows has functional, performance, and HA limitations related to the LDAP AD lookup. The details are documented in IBM Case Number: TS005919437. https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002YlqdkAAB/kosmos-gpfs-windows-filesyst...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Implement end-to-end checksums for non GNR environments

Implement data block checksums in GPFS to protect against silent data corruption. This is particularly important in an FPO environment where there are no RAID controllers to protect against individual SATA drives returning bad data to the applicat...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale automatic kernel modules

The technology is there to make this happen, especially if using Enterprise distributions such as Red Hat or Suse. You can also throw Ubuntu to some extent in the mix as they don't apply kAPI breaking changes very often. Our customer was successfu...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support LibFabrics

As more high speed networks are available (IB,OmniPath, Etc ROCE, other RDMA capable networks) The Open Fabrics org has defined a more generic interface then libverbs (which is very network specific) to enable make it easier to take advantage of n...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 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

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