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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Spectrum Scale support for routing over infiniband fabrics

The current implementation of Spectrum Scale Infiniband networking, does not allow for or support the allocation of GUID for a bonded interface when working with Mellanox's IP2GID tool which is required for configuring IP's for environment with mu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Subnet specification for RDMA based clusters

When connecting two Scale Clusters via RDMA, the "subnets" parameter is limiting. We at Vcinity specialize in building equipment that is used for connecting systems over the wan using the RDMA protocol. Whether it is InfiniBand or ROCE, we provide...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale AFM support for GCP

AFM file/object copy to GCP. Better: use AFM to TIER to GCP
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs

GEICO is in the process of migrating from older Scale infrastructure to an ESS infrastructure. Non-disruptive migration is blocked when Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GPFS AFM gateways must handle migrated/offline files in asynchronous fashion

As per the case above, we have experienced many issues in the gateway (AFM) performance, stability and global usability as a result of long waiters arising from the use of offline files in the backend of the GPFS cache and home relationship. These...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

'mmdf Device -h' for Human Readable Output

I'm used to do 'df -h' on linux operating systems to get human readable output. With 'mmdf' I have to use 'mmdf Device --block-size=auto' for human readable output, which is a bit unhandy for me. My suggestion is, to invent 'mmdf device -h' for hu...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CNSA Support for Per-PV Encryption

Add support for Scale CNSA to provide per-PV encryption allowing for each PV to use its own encryption key from GKLM or HashiCorp Vault. This would be configured as part of the encryption config CR for the PVC. Allow for each fileset associated wi...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

more useful output from mmrestripefs failures

It is possible, in a number of scenarios, to have a mmrestripefs operation fail when many disks are suspended and the filesystem is being restriped to bring the disks to the empty state. This is not an uncommon operation, especially when data is m...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

zstd compression & dictionary support

If zstd support is added to the product it would be very interesting to allow for a few dictionaries to be used to improve (de)compression speed and compression ratio. This is ideal in situations where ILM policies can be written to target either ...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Storage scale performance statistics for SMB shares

EMS GUI (Monitoring > Statistics) only provides SMB performance statistics for cluster or node level. Having stats on each individual SMB share would be very useful. NFS shares have such stats.
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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