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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Provide the ability to remove replication for a fileset via mmcesdr

This RFE is to provide the ability to remove replication for a fileset via mmcesdr. This is very messy to do manually. mmcesdr can be used to set up replication for an NFS or SMB exported fileset, and indeed expect to manage all aspects of AFM set...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Add the ability for protocol replication to support many:1 replication for shared DR cluster

The request is for support of many:1 replication for protocol cluster replication rather than only the present 1:1 model.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Protocol replication need support for bi-directional replication

This request is for the ability for AFM-based protocol replication to be able to support protocol replication from Site A to Site B, whilst simultaneously supporting replication from site B to Site A.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 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...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Remove requirement to manually remove / re-add file authentication with mmcesdr

When executing failover, restore or failback, the instructions in Section 16 of the document “IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2: Advanced Administration Guide” clearly states that one must remove and then re-create file authentication on the relevant cluster...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

mmbackup including "virtual domains"

mmbackup on gpfs 4.1.1.2 with 69 EXCLUDE-statements needs a preparation time of > 2days.The scanning time to receive the inode-list in the /tmp-directory took about 2 hours.The main part of the additional time was needed for creating the weight...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Export map support for mmcesdr

The mmcesdr command that is used in 4.2 or later to set up protocols (NFS, SMB and Object) disaster recovery via AFM allows you to specify the secondary target with the --ip-list parameter as: “a comma separated list of public IP addresses on the ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Writable snapshots on Spectrum scale for DR testing

Customers are requesting writable snapshots on Spectrum Scale in order to simulate DR testings.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for NFSv4 as AFM transport protocol

AFM currently uses NFSv3. NFSv3 is insecure and so mount point access could be gained by spoofing the IP address and a UID. We would like to request the option to alternatively used NFSv4, primary to get AFM through internal audits. This is a medi...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

GPFS FPO weighting algorithms

for GPFS FPO, all NSDs within a failure group have the same weighting regardless of the number of disks or characteristics of those disks, Please can you add a feature to enable weighting to be applied. for example if one FG only contains 5 NSDs a...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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