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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Eliminate the use of ssh and sudo wrappers

In most installations sshd PermitRootLogin is required to be NO for security reasons.That means sudo wrappers must be used. We do not use linux provided sudo but a vendor provided replacement that is centrally managed and auditable. We've had a di...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Reliability option for when suspension of disk occurs on disk outages

IBM: Currently when allocating disk space, gpfs only consider the disk status(ready,suspended/to-be-emptied, emptied, replacing, replacement) but not "availability"(up, down, recovering, unrecovered). for "availability", it will impact whether GPF...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

mmunlinkfileset -f report unmatch error message

[root@pnsd1 ~]# mmunlinkfileset aggr3 user_scratch -fUnable to quiesce fileset at all nodes.Fileset user_scratch has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. From above output we can see the error is not accurate reflecting customer's issue. They h...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

preallocating space in a file running an AFM cache

preallocating space in a file running an AFM cache isn't supported at present. This is partially documented here:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1ins_afmlimitations.htm At least it men...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

nfsv4 kerberized solution

We would like a solution to get the better performance and security of NFSv4 in a kerberized environment. This solution is to be supported in IBM Spectrum Scale protocol nodes.
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Sensors Install Symlink behavior change (avoid overwrite)

Installing the gpfs sensor package will result in zimon been installed under /opt/IBM/zimon. In case /opt already exists this migthresult in problems, in our case it was a symlink to the gpfs filesystem which was silently deleted. This was seen wi...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow no lock control option on specific protocol exports

Some workloads do not need ensuring lock and an offering if parallel access will be needed or not (specially for CIFS). So for some workloads CTDB would not necessarily be used on all exports
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Introduce effective quality management

During the last year, we saw many new ISS code levels, most of them with critical errors that could lead to data corruption or data loss. Fortunately, many costumers were spared from data corruption, but they had to update Scale nearly monthly to ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Make GPFS GUI port configurable

We would like to have the GPFS GUI port configurable to something different from 443.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

GPFS Client/Server Capable of AIX Live Update Function

Enhance GPFS code base to allow for a AIX 7.2 GPFS Client/Server to be capable of the AIX Live Update Function.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration