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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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GPFS needs better contol over NSD IOs for mixed devices SSD + SATA

For a cluster that has a mix of SSD and SATA drives for different storage pools the current architecture queues IO to small (64K) and large queues. For the cluster I was examining we saw SSD IOs being blocked by slow SATA IOs on the NSD server for...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

GPFS for Linux aarch64

Publish GPFS / Spectrum Scale for Linux on aarch64 aarch64 is supported by all Linux Versions (Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat) but not by gpfs
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

RFE to support kernel weak-updates without rebuilding GPL layer

One of our customer have a request to make it easier to update kernel for security fixes every few weeks. Currently any time one needs to upgrade kenrel he must recompile GPFS portability layer. However it should be possible to support weak-update...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for SMI-S CIM Agent for 3rd party SRM monitoring support

Require an SMI-S CIM Agent to be developed for SCALE / ESS to allow 3rd party SRM tool discovery and support (NetApp OnCommand, SolarWinds....etc) for capacity and performance monitoring. It is understood that Spectrum Control can be used with the...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)

Require a VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter) to be developed for SCALE / ESS. Have an urgent requirements for a SAS Grid implementation that will be deployed across two locations. Scale AFM Async D/R replication will be used replicate data b...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Scale IP balancing code with NFS and Samba

Nfs crash on protocol nodes brings down samba with ces root. "While waiting for the abrt trigger, please investigate why NFS crashes bring down Samba. There are cases that NFS crashes do not bring down Samba in the past.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Need approved process to create new secondary for protocol cluster AFM-based DR

With AFM-based DR, I am familiar with the process for creating a new secondary when the original secondary is lost (mmafmctl <filesystem> changeSecondary). What is the process for creating a new secondary when mmcesdr is being used to manage...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Simplify addition of "ephemeral" native clients

To add a client to a Spectrum Scale cluster requires that both the client node is booted and for the administrator to run administrative commands on an admin node. In a virtualised environment where clients are elasticly created, this is difficult...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Need a configurable timeout value for IBM Spectrum Scale replication

When a V7000 disk failure occured, whole RAID5 array couldn't complete I/O request from AIX OS at all, for about 100 seconds.After 100 seconds, the failed drive was removed from the array, then V7000 returned to normal operation and responded to A...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

RFE for GPFS - requirement for a non root user to be able to run their scripts under GPFS without errors / SELinux related

It seems like there is a limitation in GPFS that a non-root user may not modify extended attributes of a file unless they are in the "user" namespace.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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