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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Need scalable way to determine if remote file system is mountable (JUMP Trading LLC)

The `mmlsfs` command is used to determine if a node is able to mount a remote file system as part of our systemd Spectrum Scale service startup scripts. However the `mmlsfs` command appears to communicate back to the Cluster Manager node in order ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Addition of nodes in Spectrum Scale cluster without checking for GPFS software or node availability

Current the `mmaddnode` command requires that the node be available and that the GPFS software installed on the node matches the current cluster configuration. This does not allow us to add nodes that are not currently available and our system aut...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Net-SNMP support is required for GPFS monitoring for AIX

System: IBM Spectrum ScaleActor: CustomerIBM Spectrum Scale is a flexible software-defined storage that can be deployed as high performance file storage or a cost optimized large-scale content repository. Description: Our customer would like to mo...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Enable ESS and Scale GUI option to enter an editable text box or a drop-down list

Add the ability, in the ESS and Spectrum Scale GUIs to be settable as a GUI login default an editable text box or a drop-down list for searching files. For example, add a search field option to search, export and apply filter for counting differen...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Conseil Departemental de la Gironde

Our Client want to delete directory from backup, the directory is not deleted with the command del backup even for active / inactive. Review the documentation and the data knowledge : It is not possible to delete the directories in the GUI.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add support for exporting remotely mounted GPFS filesystems with ganesha via CES

The CES ganesha nfs server "allows" a remotely mounted GPFS filesystem to be exported, but doing so results in incorrect cache behavior. Ganesha maintains its own inode cache, but cache invalidation doesn't work correctly for remotefs filesystems....
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Please provide hard memory limit settings for Spectrum Scale mmfsd process

It would be very beneficial if mmfsd could be configured with a hard limit on its memory usage.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Address GPFS SNMP scaling limitations

When the GPFS SNMP agent is run in an environment with a large number of NSDs it is unable to process the performance data from the NSDs due to internal buffer exhaustion. The GPFS SNMP agent then becomes unresponsive and will never start up and r...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Dell VAS/Quest Authentication support

Our site uses Dell VAS to enable federated heterogeneous authentication between Windows and Linux systems. Currently this is used within Spectrum Scale's "User-Defined" authentication and works with Spectrum Scale 4.2. As per the PMR ID given in t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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