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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Encryption - tool to check health status of all configured encryption servers

When Encryption is configured on a file system. the key server must be available to allow user file access. When the key server fails, data access is lost. We need a tools that can be run to check key server health, check retrieval of keys, and co...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

In Spectrum Scale with Spectrum Archive ES solution, customer want to know hwo many data are in disk and tapes

Customer attaches few x86 nodes into ESS cluster and enable Spectrum Archive EE in those x86 nodes to archive cold data from ESS tapes. Customer create few fileset to provide data service for their end uses in different department. The requirement...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Intel Omnipath support in Spectrum Scale

I'm just wondering if native Omnipath verbs support is on the roadmap for Spectrum Scale (GPFS).
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Support GPFS on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and future LTS releases

Support Ubuntu LTS releases in addition to Debian
almost 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

GPFS Pagepool enhancement

Nvidia wants an option to pagepool. Layer on top of existing static pagepool, the ability to have a dynamic layer of pagepool while keeping existing pagepool static. Similar to Linux page-cache for caching data, and a similar option equivalent of ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Extend readReplicaPolicy and "failure group" to nodes, to help localize reads in a stretched cluster.

With a 2-site "stretched cluster", readReplicaPolicy can be used to choose which replica is used for reading, except... our options don't really handle complex network topologies. The "fastest" setting is often not a good choice because network la...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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)
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Create or Change CES Exports without restarting Ganesha

According to the ISS documentation, a change on a CES NFS Export, like adding an additional IP causes ISS to restart Ganesha on each CES Node. Since Ganesha also supports dynamically adding exports via DBUS, without causing restarts, we request th...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Generalized quality of service (QoS) user processes

For my customer who has about 30 project groups and requires a guaranteed I/O QoS for different groups of users or processes, Spectrum Scale should have its QoS capability generalized in the following manner: 1.) Define multiple classes, not just ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Storage Scale - Need GPFS to support storing or exporting performance data into enterprise-level time series database like InfluxDB or Prometheus

Problem: 1. The "pmcollector" service usually cannot work well when the GPFS cluster has over 100 nodes. As a result, the GUI will not display the performance data normally. And restarting the GUI will not help.2. ZIMON can not process large amoun...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered