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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Support for multiple daemon networks

Currently GPFS has a major networking restriction which is (from the developer works site): When configuring a GPFS cluster you start by defining an IP address that can be used for all nodes to communicate. This is the IP address that you specify...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

user/role based permission control in Spectrum Scale

So far, in Spectrum Scale, all user management is done by OS, e.g. by /etc/passwd, by AD or LDAP. However, for administration, there is only one role: the user root or the common user with sudo permission. No matter it's the user root, or it's the...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Generalized quality of service (QoS) user processes

For my customer who has about 30 project groups and requires a guaranteed I/O QoS for different groups of users or processes, Spectrum Scale should have its QoS capability generalized in the following manner: 1.) Define multiple classes, not just ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Setting the Spectrum Scale license designation in the mmaddnode command (JUMP)

We currently have a hack in our system automation facilities for a node to set the Spectrum Scale License Designation. This can be problematic when multiple nodes attempt to change their License Designation at the same time. We would prefer GPFS t...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

support hole punching

We're seeing requests for customers running Commvault that they need support for hole punching to free up space in already allocated files. Please support deallocating space in files trhough the FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE flags o...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Enhance mmnfs config list output to state that NFS_KRB5 is active or not

We hit the Problem with mmnfs config change cmd issue (294665) that erased the NFS_KRB5 Section without indication of unhealty events or Info's in the mmnfs config list output. The idea here we request a addition in the output listing of mmnfs con...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Improve performance in mmrestripe

Mmrestripe operation encounters slow performance in ESS tracked under PMR 85092-227-000. The action plan is to increase the pitWorkerThreadsPerNode value manually. This RFE is to improve the performance of restripe. The development team suggests t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Allow later kernel gpfs.gplbin to be installed without taking down GPFS

Kernel upgrades are done by installing the new kernel while the current systems is running. When the server is rebooted, it picks up the new kernel. The new level of gpfs.gplbin that matches that new kernel cannot be added while Scale is up, even ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Support GPFS on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and future LTS releases

Support Ubuntu LTS releases in addition to Debian
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

REST API Endpoints for Usage Feedback of Filesystems and Filesets

We are currently developing a self service portal for Spectrum Scale, mainly based on the REST API. We would like to feed back filesystem and fileset usages (used capacity and used inodes), like the GUI does already. However currently the REST API...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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