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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Provide helper to determine metadata size

    We have a GNR cluster with > 650 million files, distributed over two filesystems. All disks are DataAndMetadata. Policy runs and mmbackup are taking very long. One speedup suggestion of the GPFS support was to use explicit metadata storage. Unf...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Allow IBM Spectrum Protect Client installed directly on ESS Appliance Family

    When performing backup operations on ESS using MMbackup and IBM Spectrum Protect, the current architecture needs to have a Backup Proxy in order to configure the IBM Spectrum Protect and MMbackup. In this configuration, MMbackup currently forces t...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Improve fragment allocation when very large number of NSDs and allocation regions.

    Current fragment allocation behavior for small files or shrink-to-fit operation looks only on the region's local list. If nothing fits it allocates a full block for the small file. This causes a problem when billions of small files are created in ...
    30 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    AFM - flag for file TTL in AFM prefetch --list-files

    When files are prefetch, users knows the useful life of the the files prefetched. In mmafmctl Device prefetch -j FilesetName --list-files, add an flag to set TTL for all the files being fetched. When TTL is reached, eviction should occur. This pre...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    AFM - Update AFMConfig map without service disruption

    When NFS Home servers are brought offline for maintenance, we will have automation that updates automatically update the AFM Config map relationship. AFM needs to honor this updated map non-disruptively. Currently this is a disruptive event where ...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    When tape data is encrypted, but Spectrum Scale recall cache and Stub files are not, how do we encrypt those without recalling the data off tape?

    Using both Storage Archive and Storage Scale system (ESS) we need to be able to encrypt the data on ESS without impacting or recalling the tape data (Which is already encryped via the TS4500 Library). The client will be migratiing from Gen2 ESS to...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    ArgoCD Integration for CNSA deployment lifecycle and automation

    We use ArgoCD for Openshift based implementation lifecycle and patching. We need a way to integrate the CNSA images with ArgoCD to automate our CI/CD deployments for the CNSA clients across all our lanes.
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Implement mmlsmgr/mmlsmount reversion to the display of short hostnames after nodes with a different domain are removed from a GPFS cluster

    When a node with a different DNS domain is added to a GPFS cluster (or a remote cluster mounting a filesystem from an NSD cluster), mmlsmgr and mmlsmount output shows hosts with the trailing domain (up to the point of similarity). This makes sense...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option

    Change GPFS to use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT bind() option so so that binds() on sockets meant to be used for a subsequent connect() do not require that there's a totally unused port in the ephemeral port range for the source IP. We got an assert on...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    expand the number of hosts that a nodeclass can have

    Clients want to add more than 1k hosts to a nodeclass.
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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