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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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AIX mmdumpkthreads

mmdumptkreads currently uses kdb to dump the process stack, it would be more efficient to run a ps and execute procstack for each process.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Support ILMT for Per TB licensing for 5.1 (ESS Support still needed)

Scale should support the use of ILMT reporting for Capacity licensing. ILMT itself can count PVUs, but it also has the ability to consume usage reports from non-PVU licensed products if they produce information in the correct format, and then prov...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 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

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

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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Create or Change CES Exports without restarting Ganesha

According to the ISS documentation, a change on a CES NFS Export, like adding an additional IP causes ISS to restart Ganesha on each CES Node. Since Ganesha also supports dynamically adding exports via DBUS, without causing restarts, we request th...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 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...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Spectrum Scale request to be able to lock down daemon listening on a specific IP

System: Latest Spectrum Scale versions Actor: Spectrum Scale users/Security teams Spectrum Scale is used by a wide variety of users in numerous industries. When specifically thinking of network and node security, port security is paramount in high...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

restart ganesha NFS service on failure

when nfs-ganesha goes down (eg. when it is killed), there are no attempts to restart it again. As far as I know, i don't see such a possibility to do this using CES. We see ganesha is down in the log files, and failover to another node goes smooth...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Add filefilter in Spectrum Scale (GPFS)

We would like to be able to use file filtering to avoid user to write MP3-MP4 and PST (outlook personal folder) on the GPFS file system (Spectrum Scale NAS software)
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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