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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Allow a comment to be created/added/deleted to a node definition

Allow a comment to be attached to or removed from a node definition with the cluster.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Contention on client on mutex BufDescCacheObjMutex when multiple local processes access same file

When Running DIII-D tests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIII-D_(tokamak) ) on Spectrum Scale we see when adding more clients contention on the refered mutex. Details on https://jazz07.rchland.ibm.com:21443/jazz/web/projects/GPFS#action=com.ibm.te...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

possibility to change the server or ip with mmkeyserv of the GKLM Server Definitions

There seems to be a Gap to reconfigure the gklm mmkeyserv server configuration on the scale cluster if there are changes in the IP or DNS-Names on the same GKLM-Servers. The only possible Solution to delete the current config and reestablish these...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

RAS improvements - mmhealth nvme status information

In regard to the nvme status information it is desired to have mmhealth to monitor the "Optimal Link state" and "Optimal LBS Format" (RTC Issue 267159)Most important is an alert in the monitoring when the status is away from "optimal".
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

[BDA] Hadoop transparency, Support for native Ranger encryption

Moving in to container based workloads we see many use cases for SCALE integration in to Hadoop. At the moment we are missing one critical functionality and that is the use of object based encryption trough Hortonworks Ranger with Scale Transparen...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Make mmhealth more customizable

Right now, only TIPS events can be hidden. We would like that this can be extended for other events or states, eg. when a ccr quorum node is down for maintenance, we can disable the ccr_quorum_nodes_warn temporary to keep the nodes healthy so we c...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Windows 10 Native Client

Need a Windows 10 native client committed for roadmap this year otherwise we will continue to loose opportunities.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

GPFS SMB - dfree command

We are deploying GPFS into production enviroment, but GPFS has problem with SMB service. SMB service (smbd) reports double size share than is real. This is caused by filesystem replication on two storwize V5010.The solution of this problem is to u...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

More Groups in Spectrum Scale for AIX

Currently under Spectrum Scale Server for AIX 4.2.x the products supports only 128 AIX Groups but in all other OS much more like Windows and Linux. We Need urgently the support of more Group id's
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Delivered

Report internal status of NSDs on NSD servers

When NSDs on an NSD server experience an I/O error GPFS appears to mark them as being in an error state, the end result being clients not sending I/O requests to that NSD server. When this happens the NSD reports it as OK via mmlsdisk and mmlsnsd....
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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