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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Dockers utilization for Spectrum Scale processes

    Scale best practices recommends to have separate servers for Scale servers and Protocol Nodes. In ESS also is not supported to include Protocol Nodes inside the ESS nodes due to GNR resource contention. This implies to have almost four servers for...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Increase independent filespace limit

    AFM, fileset snapshots and some other features can only be used with independent filesets. Thus GPFS customers are advised to prefer them over dependent filesets.But GPFS has a hardcoded limit of 1000 independent filesets per filesystem which is t...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Deliver for each Server a GPFS Client for free

    GPFS aka Spectrum Scale is great- to reach a broader customer set, I suggest that we'll deliver a GPFS client/ NSD "driver for free" !
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Use transactional write model and issue periodic disk cache flushes

    GPFS (at least on Linux) does not attempt to flush the cache of the block devices to which it is writing. It relies on O_DIRECT to bypass host write cache but this does not guarantee data has been flushed to stable media. This RFE requests that GP...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Support backup and restore of metadata

    Allow administrator to backup and restore GPFS filesystem metadata without losing data stored on dataOnly or dataAndMetadata NSDs.
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    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...
    about 10 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...
    about 10 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...
    about 10 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.
    about 10 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...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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