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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Provide a changelog for Scale releases

Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Ability to limit io per user for gpfs fs for a node/server

Client need the ability to impose restriction on IO that a user can open on a compute server via cgroup or any other method. They currently have cpu and ram limit per user but users seem to overload io request that retards system responds.
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Adding SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES for SpectrumScale

We need SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES.SLES has a market share of 99% in HANA on Power.HANA will be the only database for SAP.To use SpectrumScale in HANA environments we need SLES Support for smb.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Report Spectrum Scale Event if FD hard Limit of Ganesha server is above the threshold.

Ganesha NFS server has a limit of max. open files, which is calculated by 80% of the maxFilesToCache parameter. If Ganesha Server is reaching this limit, Ganesha NFS server will stop working and all NFS clients will loose access to data. In curren...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Ability to change NSD names

We would like the ability to change the name of existing NSDs. This change could be done while entire GPFS NSD Server Cluster is down, similar to when you change the NSD ServerList.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Manual ticket creation by mmcallhome/GUI

mmcallhome is capable of creating HW tickets at IBM support portal on failing hardware automatically. Sometimes it would be helpful to create ticket manually. The credential/system information are directly available. Also any snaps and trace data ...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable SMB Multichannel

SMB Multichannel enables file servers to use multiple network connections simultaneously. It facilitates aggregation of network bandwidth and network fault tolerance when multiple paths (f.ex. multiple network adapters configured for LACP on clien...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Expediting file system recovery for very large environments

Enterprise Scale environments are typically comprised of a large quantity of i-nodes and/or file counts for footprints of a few hundred PB in a single filesystem. When an unexpected event occurs, such as fs log corruption, running mmfsck to recove...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

AFM Azure Blob direct support

For data exchange, data access from multiple sites and also access of data from within Azure we would like to use Spectrum Scale AFM connected to a Azure blob similar as connected to S3 storage. Currently this will require a S3 / Azure converter l...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

List and stop long running commands

Some Spectrum Scale commands can take a long time to run, such as mmapplypolicy, mmrestripefs, mmecheckquota. These might be run manually, or started by cron a batch system, or a callback. But sometimes, once started, there is a need to stop the c...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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