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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Multi-socket TCPIP for gpfs clients

Customer has asked that we change the way GPFS clients connect to the server. Instead of single single stream to a single socket they would like to multi-stream TCPIP for gpfs clients, so they wouldn't be limited to a single socket (and in turn, l...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Increment RPM Release Number for ifix/efix RPM Releases

Increment RPM release number for ifix/efix RPM releases so they're differentiated by "rpm" and "yum", and thus not require the use of "yum reinstall" or "rpm --force -U" to install. Properly incremented release numbers will allow for a normal upgr...
about 9 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...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

mmbackup does not handle EXCLUDE.DIR rules preferentially over EXCLUDE rules

The TSM BA client dsmc by default includes everything in the backup domain (defaults to all local filesystems), optionally allowing one to exclude paths and even re-include paths that would by excluded by previous rules. There are two mechanisms f...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

multi network connections support (multirail)

Michael Daubman and Lisa visited CMA(China Meteorological Administration). in the meeting, CMA raised this requirement: they hope GPFS to provide the network connection fault tolerance. Linux bond doesn't help CMA because their clusters have two s...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

possibility to change the server or ip with mmkeyserv of the GKLM Server Definitions

There seems to be a Gap to reconfigure the gklm mmkeyserv server configuration on the scale cluster if there are changes in the IP or DNS-Names on the same GKLM-Servers. The only possible Solution to delete the current config and reestablish these...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

RAS improvements - mmhealth nvme status information

In regard to the nvme status information it is desired to have mmhealth to monitor the "Optimal Link state" and "Optimal LBS Format" (RTC Issue 267159)Most important is an alert in the monitoring when the status is away from "optimal".
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

expel the right node although the node is high priority

one ethernet port in one of quorum nodes flapping leading the cluster manger to expel lots of other health nodes in several hours, till the gpfs can not provides service. IBM should add reasonable expel rules to expel the problem node As Alibaba k...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

fix mmdiag --stat -Y indistinguishable entries

mmdiag offers -Y for machine-readable output. Unfortunately parsing that output is difficult because there are multiple lines that have an identical identification string. So you really cannot deduce what value you are seeing. The only way to sure...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Retrieving GPFS migration attributes

Retrieving GPFS migration attributes
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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