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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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

Add afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce parameters to ISS REST API fileset endpoints

With ISS 5.0.5"Data migration by using AFM migration enhancements" was introduced. And with it two new fileset parameters afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce. In 5.1 you introduced these parameters in the REST API GET fileset calls but not in the PO...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Add logrotation for cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy

Please add log rotation for the cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy They can get quite large and fill up the available disk space.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

Allow a comment to be created/added/deleted to a node definition

Allow a comment to be attached to or removed from a node definition with the cluster.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

support nsd network checksums in non gnr environment

Support nsd network checksums in environments without ESS/GNR (see the settings mentioned in this thread https://www.mail-archive.com/gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org/msg02705.html).
over 7 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...
over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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

Contention on client on mutex BufDescCacheObjMutex when multiple local processes access same file

When Running DIII-D tests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIII-D_(tokamak) ) on Spectrum Scale we see when adding more clients contention on the refered mutex. Details on https://jazz07.rchland.ibm.com:21443/jazz/web/projects/GPFS#action=com.ibm.te...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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

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...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered