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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Quota calculation and capacity presentation based on files size

User quota and file set quota are calculated based on allocated capacity on GPFS (kb_allocated). If files are moved to an external tier, e.g. by transparent cloud tiering, the file system utilisation will be decreased. Storage admins should have t...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add performance monitoring for fileset and storage pool per client node

When a storage pool or fileset is close to being filled up, it is possible to identify which client node is exerting the most write pressure through performance monitoring. This allows the relevant business unit to be notified to make adjustments.
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Enhance mmperfmon sensors to generate DF statistics also for .snapshots in Filesystem and filset structure

In the area of Cybercrime we are in preparation of using saveguarded snapshots in our scale based Storage Protect environment. Because of the usage of immutable snapshots we had no sensor that generate space utilisation statistics of snapshots in ...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Snapshot directory to show valid creation date

When we do ls -l on the .snapshots directory from NFS client, or GPFS client.We see strange dates which are not related to the snapshots : he dates on the snapshots directories look strange. [root@ems4 @GMT-2023.12.26-02.00.55]# mmlssnapshot gpfsO...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

Snapshot policy to check number of snapashots

Sometimes there is a problem when the policy try to create snapshot - like mmlssnapshot timeout - and this skip the creation of snapshots - and also deletion of the old snapshot by policy- this means that the older snapshot will not be delete by t...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Needs more information

IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow group owners to also query filesets

We have user filesets (independent) that are owned by root but the group is actually the user. Unfortunately Spectrum Scale seems not to take group ownership into account and only the owner can query the fileset (mmlsfileset) which seems overly re...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Accelerate re-balance actions when adding new ECE nodes into existing RG

Partner was opened two cases about expanding ECE nodes to existing RG. The re-balance progress was very slowly. The action was last for 3 months when adding 3 new ECE nodes into existing 5 ECE nodes topology.This is not a acceptable solution to cu...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Add Broadcom SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in Scale ECE

One of OEM partners are planning to replace existing SAS 3108 HBA with SAS 3808/3908 HBAs. But we didn't find SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the support list of ECE 5.1.9. The partner hope IBM can support SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the next release. They can pr...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Support 256 or more cluster watches per cluster.

Only 25 cluster watches are supported per cluster, but we need 256 at least.
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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