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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Implement end-to-end checksums for non GNR environments

Implement data block checksums in GPFS to protect against silent data corruption. This is particularly important in an FPO environment where there are no RAID controllers to protect against individual SATA drives returning bad data to the applicat...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

When using Protocol nodes, the export IPs should be the only one to allow mounting shares

With the use of Protocol Nodes, the CES requires IPs for export shares. However, even having the IP specific for share, the internal IPs (NODE IPs), which are used for administration only, also allow the NFS Mounts. The request is to isolate the n...
almost 9 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...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 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.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 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...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

mmcesdr secondary config should create NFS exports without RW access to all clients

Please can you modify mmcesdr secondary config so that it creates secure NFS exports (for use by AFM) by only exporting to the gateways of the primary cluster, and not all clients. When mmcesdr is used (mmcesdr secondary config) to set up the seco...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

AD with autoID mode to support NFSv4 Kerberos authentication

Need cross platform access (NFS and SMB) in an AD domain where the AD-LDS is not RFC2307 compliant. We need to be able to use AD with autoID mode to support NFSv4 Kerberos authentication. Using the kerberos ticket for IDMAP instead of UID is a use...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

mmaddnode error message enhancement

mmaddnode failed with a "node already belongs to GPFS cluster" error. But the problem ended up being that a reverse DNS lookup of the IP address of the node being added returned the IP address of a node that already belonged to the cluster. Since ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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