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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Support for snapshot recall in AFM cache

    Currently, if a file is evicted from an AFM cache fileset, the snapshot file of the evicted file become zeros. Is there a roadmap to support fetching data from home when reading an evicted snapshot file in AFM cache cluster? This feature would be ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    On the Storage Scale Server (SSS) formerly ESS, the "mmlsnsd" command should show the NSD disk primary/secondary server relationship as previously done and does so for Spectrum Scale on SANs and Lenovo DSS.

    Having "mmlsnsd" display the NSD disk data path ownership (primary/secondary server relationships) allows customers to balance disk assignments. In addition, Lenovo DSS does this already and customers migrating from Lenovo , like MorganStanley, ha...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Request to support kernel version 5.4.15.x

    Our OEM parnter Inspur Electronic Information were resold many ECE cluster to their customers. One of key issue is limited kernel supported in Storage Scale. Their customer need flexible support policy to kernel version. Their customer need to use...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Dockers utilization for Spectrum Scale processes

    Scale best practices recommends to have separate servers for Scale servers and Protocol Nodes. In ESS also is not supported to include Protocol Nodes inside the ESS nodes due to GNR resource contention. This implies to have almost four servers for...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Data segregation with filesets link

    The customer has a fileset. The application used is SAP netweaver.It runs on the cluster with one same uid/gid. The physical users are connected to this application remotelly and there is no UID/GID specific to them. One of the SAP transaction per...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Protocol replication needs the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing

    Protocol replication has “all-or-nothing” failover/failback process. Cannot test DR for new exports. We need the ability to failover individual filesets for DR testing With “AFM-based DR” (which the protocols cluster DR is based on), and indeed fo...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 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 5 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 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enable Case Sensitivity in SMB Protocol

    Externalize Samba Option on mmsmb to enable Case sensitivity for customer.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under 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...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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