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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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parallel exec mmnfs command

We need Spectrum Scale to have this capability that to exec parallel mmnfs export.As the PMR TS001242955 said: "When using mmnfs export command, it will modify and update export configuration in CCR repository. And we know, the CCR DB update requi...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Hierarchical fileset quotas option

Add an option to mmcrfileset and/or mmchfileset where you can specify whether or not you want the fileset quota usage of all child filesets to "roll up" and be applied to quotas of any/all of their parent filesets. This probably makes the most sen...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

CTDB recovery timeout improvement

Multiple protocol nodes are stuck in wait state when pn01 is selected to be the master recovery causing loss of access of the whole cluster. However pn01 is hung and stuck due to kernel oops issue. After pn01 is rebooted and no GPFS running, pn03 ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

multi-tenant requirement for POSIX interface

The ESS storage is manged by customer storage department. the clients are from different business departments. The customer takes NFS interface for data access. The customer wants to take POSIX interface for their clients because of performance. H...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

E-mail-based callhome in Spectrum Scale

the customer deployed different IBM storages. in A9000 like storage, it provides the email-based callhome. When the call home detects some potential issues, it will collect some data, send the data to one email address from IBM and the proper supp...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

one Spectrum Scale GUI monitors multiple ESS clusters

PingAn deployed several ESS clusters in China/Beijing and China/Shanghai. So far, they have to login different GUI web to monitor different clusters. PingAn raised the request for one Spectrum Scale GUI to monitor multiple ESS clusters so that the...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

fine-grained performance monitoring for protocol

The customer raised this requirement in their workshop in 2018:1. for protocol/NFS, PingAn could monitor the throughput of each exported points. PingAn raised the request to monitor the throughput from each clients to see which client is taking mo...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Send notification via SS and ESS for expiring encryption certificate

As the expiring certificate is expiring, the warning messages will be printed periodically into the GPFS daemon log (/var/adm/ras/mmfs.log.latest) in upcoming 5.0.x release. This RFE is to notify users via email or whatever means configured in ESS...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

To include support of remote CES Object Clusters

Currently, The Official Spectrum Scale Documentation states the following main points.• This setup(Remote Clusters) cannot be used for Object or iSCSI services.• The storage cluster must not have any protocol nodes (CES must be disabled). https://...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

SMB lease support

Migrating system currently using a windows share to Spectrum scale and experiencing performance issues:The Windows server grantsSMB leases to the client, thus multiple opens won't break the client caching. As a result there are fewer and larger RE...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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