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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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zstd compression & dictionary support

If zstd support is added to the product it would be very interesting to allow for a few dictionaries to be used to improve (de)compression speed and compression ratio. This is ideal in situations where ILM policies can be written to target either ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Parallelization/enhancement of pool migrations of individual large files

When running migrations between different pools often it appears the tail latency of the ILM run is dictated by a small number of large files This seems to be due to the pool migration of any individual file being a single threaded activity that i...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Enable multi protocol CES SMB / NFS rolling upgrades when CTDB upgrade is within a minor version.

When a multi protocol SMB and NFS CES cluster is upgraded, a short full stop of all CES protocols is required due to CTDB not allowing mixed major or minor versions. This can often cause issues with NFS mounts, if it is not possible to unmount the...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Storage scale performance statistics for SMB shares

EMS GUI (Monitoring > Statistics) only provides SMB performance statistics for cluster or node level. Having stats on each individual SMB share would be very useful. NFS shares have such stats.
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

Support Scale Client running on VMware ESXi 8.x

According to the support page, VMware ESX 7.x is supoorted but not ESXi8.x . Table 72. VMware support matrix on VM guest https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#virtual also please provide GDS(GPUDirect Storage ) support informatio...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for dynamic expansion of each constituent volume in Storage Scale GPFS's File System, especially in combination with Db2 PureScale on Public Cloud.

It is necessary to support dynamic expansion of each constituent volume itself, rather than GPFS expansion by adding volumes. Adding volumes has a limit on the number of expansions. The method of adding a volume larger than the existing volume an...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Preventive alert for cluster key certificate expiration

According to the recent flash " IBM Storage Scale: An expired cluster key prevents nodes from connecting to the Storage Scale cluster resulting in admin commands failing to update the cluster configuration.https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/71...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add debug kernel support to GPFS

Hi I was trying to start gpfs on a debug rhel kernel for kmemleak debugging It failed due to being unsupported. Can this support be added in future GPFS versios?
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Enhance mmfindinode Performance and Provide SDK API for Path Query by Inode

This RFE requests enhancements to the mmfindinode utility in the GPFS/Spectrum Scale filesystem to significantly improve its performance. Additionally, it proposes the development of an SDK API that allows querying file paths based on inode number...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration