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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Storage Scale performance is extremely sensitive to network and backend latency, there must be a mechanism to monitor those critical KPI

    It would help both system administrator and IBM Support to be able to quickly identify the key issue and be able to isolate the bottleneck to address critical performance issues.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

    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...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Expedited inode scan / faster disk replacement for descOnly disks with filesystem that have large inode counts

    For Scale filesystems with very large inode counts, requesting an improvement to reduce/consolidate the inode scan requirements when replacing the descOnly disks (128M).
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    CES NFS - extended attributes

    Storage Scale (GPFS) does support extended attributes for the users like: > getfattr -d stephan.txt > md5sum stephan.txt 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt > setfattr -n user.md5 -v 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt &...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Preview of mmreclaimspace for a determinate threshold

    The idea is to have a preview of the mmreclaimspace without actually running it to have an idea of how much space will be recovered by a certain threshold. This can be interesting due to the lower the threshold is, the more impacte in performance ...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Introduce effective quality management

    During the last year, we saw many new ISS code levels, most of them with critical errors that could lead to data corruption or data loss. Fortunately, many costumers were spared from data corruption, but they had to update Scale nearly monthly to ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    AFM Local Filesystem Caching Support

    Allow AFM to cache data from a "home" of a local filesystem mounted on a node. This could be a local filesystem on a single node or a shared filesystem such as HDFS fuse mounted or other mounted POSIX filesystem such as a Lustre/ZFS/XFS/etc...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    allow s3 nooba to upload user files to gpfs

    we have setup mmces S3 to allow users to write into an immutable fileset (Noncompliant Mode) for long term archiving their data. Listing and reading files from or even removing them in the fileset via S3 works as expected. But an upload of new dat...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enable AWS STS support

    Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Support more than 15 remote clusters with fileset access control

    Customer needs strict separation of filesets accessible on different compute clusters, and want to utilize RFAC to control what view each of the compute clusters has access to in the file system. Customer was then surprised when they hit the limit...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

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