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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Need to be able to trace GPFS with small overhead

The available trace feature of GPFS requires lots of system resource, to be able to enable such trace on a production system, a light weight trace option is required.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

GPFS filespace update

GPFS runs the mmbackup which does not update the backup start and backup end parameters on the tsm client node. This parameter is updated when a regular node runs a backup. The backup for a GPFS node runs a selected backup and does not update the ...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

AFM support for immutable and appendOnly mode in GPFS

The customer requests a design change because there is a valid use case where they require setting files to immutable or appendonnly on the IW cache (to prevent tampering of human genome information stored in such files) which means that the files...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Improve system memory hard limit for GPFS program startup to adapt to AI system

We hit the following issue on Spectrum Scale 5.1.6.1 when GPFS is starting up. 2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] Verifying minimum system memory configurations.2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] The system memory configuration is 2063930 MiB2023-12...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale needs to be NIST 800-53 compliant.

After scanning our system, Stig report is generated and there is one case have been addressed from our side but is still not resolved. In additional details, the issue is being addressed.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

start all available NSDs after reboot or with "mmchdisk start -a"

"mmchdisk FS start -a" fails if one or more NSDs of a file system is not available (e.g. did not spin up). This is very odd. Our expectation is, that all available NSDs are started, and only the unavailable devices stay down. Actually, all NSDs of...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition 需要支持roce组网

很多项目客户要求支持roce, 已和IBM沟通答复如下: roce现在有很多限制,需要我们自己验证过,然后提RPQ,测试通过才可以使用 请问当前roce的限制主要在哪些方面,我们需要测是哪些场景呢才算通过呢,谢谢
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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