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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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mmhealth incorrectly reports Windows nodes as FAILED

Scale 4.2.3NSD nodes on x86, rhel7.3client nodes on x86, rhel and Windows 2012 R2When executed on NSD node, mmhealth incorrectly shows Windows node as FAILED:---# mmhealth cluster show node Component Node Status Reasons----------------------------...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

SNMP 64 bit counters + CIM support

Proper 64 bit counters. Obtaining correct SNMP values (E.G. for pool sizes) is not as simple as it should be.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

AFM queue control

Complete control over the order of each prefetch (analogy: priority WAN transfer queue for GPFS)
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 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...
over 6 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...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

GUI vs. waiters

GUI thread fork()s mmlsfs ... but when the cluster is hanging anyway .. it does not makes any sense , maybe GUI can be optimized to check cluster state/waiters ... As if a cluster hnags (has waiters) adding more monitoring hanging processes on top...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

GPFS as gateway for different storage system

Michael Daubman and Lisa visited CMA(China Meteorological Administration). in the meeting, CMA raised this requirement CMA has multiple GPFS cluster and they also have different NAS storage system from different vendors. usually, they will set up ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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