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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Option to avoid down drives

Option: when a device is down allows writes to blocks on the device to go to a different device rather than create a missed update. This protects the file system from large numbers of missed update blocks and retains full replica count.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow for separation of client services from storage services

Allow for the optional separation of the gpfs mmfsd process into a client process mmfscd independent of the gpfs storage process mmfssd. When something goes wrong with I/O subsystem in one node the applications on that node should still be able to...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Describe how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when first using Spectrum Scale Developer Edition

Client wants to install Spectrum Scale Developer Edition today while waiting to receive their DME licenses. Requesting documentation which describes how to install/upgrade purchased DAE/DME license files when Spectrum Scale Developer Edition is cu...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Improve 'mmvdisk filesystem delete' behavior

When deleting a vdisk set from a filesystem the command is: mmvdisk filesystem delete --file-system udata --vdisk-set VS2It responds with:mmvdisk: This will run the GPFS mmdeldisk command on file system 'udata'But it does NOT say what it is going ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale Config Changes in GUI

Provide the ability for the Spectrum Scale GUI to show and make changes to the GPFS config parameters and provide recommendations to nodes and nodeclasses in the GUI. A tuning page would check the configuration of nodes and nodeclasses and allow f...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Provie a button or tab that exposes API calls that would have resulted in the previous GUI activity.

The command line actions used are shown when a GUI action is completed, but this does not always map to a specific API call or sequence of API calls. It would be helpful for those trying to move to automated workflows to see what the API call woul...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Tools or self tune mechanisms for troubleshooting

Customers would like to have tools that would allow them to analyze our diagnostic information so they could more quickly determine what was wrong with the system and try to correct it (i.e. Self tune based on the latency and throughput of the net...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Overflow data placement

When creating a new filesystem with more than 1 pool, GPFS will guess where to put the file data. It would be nice if it was also capable of spillover to other pools, when the pool it guessed for here runs full: RULE 'default' SET POOL 'data' LIMI...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Use enterprise SATA drive in ECE

In our configuration, except SAS HDD/SSD and NVME, we also need to use enterprise SATA HDD/SSD as pdisk in ECE. These SATA drives can pass the ECE precheck for DpoFua and SCT ERC. The attachment is the list.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

support filesystem metadata migration to 4K-based NSDs

Provide a transparent (e.g. no downtime) mechanism to introduce NSDv2 4k-aligned metadata NSDs into filesystems created with NSDv1 format NSDs.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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