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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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GPFS 5.1.9.7 supports ubuntu22.04.1 (kernel: 5.15.0.136)

Several customers are experiencing OS panics using Ubuntu (5.15.0-72-generic). The GPFS version is 5.1.9.7 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.15.y&id=a5ee9fe48fa51a79620b041b27a94a05e7ac75a0 root...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Functionality already exists

CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent

CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent. In order to improve their monitoring integration with Grafana, client needs to shorten the frequency of some GUI tasks . I used the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/chtask <task> --period <...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

RDMA场景下网卡存算分离

计算节点有两种RDMA网卡:mlx_1和mlx_2 存储节点有四张RDMA网卡:mlx_1 mlx_2 mlx_3 mlx_4 我们想实现这么一种组网: (1)计算节点<->存储节点只使用mlx_1和mlx_2 (2)存储节点<->存储节点(pdisk client->pdisk server)只使用mlx_3和mlx_4
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Support APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles.

Support Local existing APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles.
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Streamline command line parameters

mmhealth knows --unhealty. mmvdisk pdisk list knows --not-ok. Both essentially are meaning the same: only display the problematic stuff. I constantly keep confusing these two and use the wrong one. So I suggest to support both for all commands the...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

GUI change of units how quota is set up

because we need this feature for better daily operation of capacities...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

LDAP improvements RELATED TO TS018381561

This will help to resolve case TS018381561
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance Install-Toolkit to add Firewall configuration support for rhel9

Our current rhel9 Systems that are provisioned has firewalld system service actice bei default. This generate a requirement to define the nessacary firewall roules for scale.These are our current cmd's that we used: firewall-cmd --add-port=10080/t...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support DHCP with NSD for ESS/SSS clusters

This will allow enterprises that require DHCP for ip address resolution.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Protocols - SMB: disable share (but keep in config)

There is no way to temporary disable and SMB or NFS exports. The only way is to delete the export. (At least for SMB exports) It would be more convenient and less likely that you make an error if you could disable it instead of delete it. It would...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration