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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Disable NFS export

When having maintenance on larger file systems, it's advisable to first do a clean shutdown, and then enable maintenance mode with mmchfs --maintenance-mode to avoid anyone mounting or processes messing with the file system. This is quite problema...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Make CSI upgrade easier for disconnected clusters

At the present time when you want to upgrade spectrum scale's CSI there's no clear documentation: I go to the target version section and then to the 'upgrade' part. But there's nothing written for a disconnected cluster and for RHEL servers. To ha...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

API enhancement for File System Size and Utilization

In the current version (5.1.8) the api does not have a usable endpoint for the filesystem to show Current File System Size (Data/System) File system utilisation (size / %used)
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Capacity quota support for HSM managed file systems

We have two storage scale file systems which are HSM managed using Spectrum Protect for space Management. In total we are storing ~40 PB user data on tape here. Each group has been granted an amount of files and capacity for all our file systems. ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Feature Enhancement to support multiple infiniband partition key

Increase security against eavesdropping by limiting the access to resources using infiniband partition so cross talk and malicious attacks can be eliminate
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add compressed/ill-compressed options to mmfind

For a while we have maintained our own modified versions of mmfind and tr_findToPol.pl in /usr/lpp/mmfs/samples/ilm so we can identify the compressed and illcompressed files. It would be nice if this feature could be considered for inclusion in fu...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add zstd as a compression option

Although the existing compression options are okay sometimes it would be nice to be have more options where speed and decent compression ratios are achievable. Zstd has been gaining traction both in the Linux area and is already on some IBM tape d...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

On the Storage Scale Server (SSS) formerly ESS, the "mmlsnsd" command should show the NSD disk primary/secondary server relationship as previously done and does so for Spectrum Scale on SANs and Lenovo DSS.

Having "mmlsnsd" display the NSD disk data path ownership (primary/secondary server relationships) allows customers to balance disk assignments. In addition, Lenovo DSS does this already and customers migrating from Lenovo , like MorganStanley, ha...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CNSA / Rest API - Restrict GUI User access to a single Filesystem

Today, each CNSA Instance requires two GUI Users with the Access Roles of ContainerOperator and CsiAdmin. These GUI Roles have permissions to connect and manage all existing Filesystems on the Remote Scale Cluster. Fthat means: an Openshift Admin ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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