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Ability to change NSD names

We would like the ability to change the name of existing NSDs. This change could be done while entire GPFS NSD Server Cluster is down, similar to when you change the NSD ServerList.

over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

2 VOTE

Snapshot directory to show valid creation date

When we do ls -l on the .snapshots directory from NFS client, or GPFS client.We see strange dates which are not related to the snapshots : he dates on the snapshots directories look strange. [root@ems4 @GMT-2023.12.26-02.00.55]# mmlssnapshot gpfsO...

4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

2 VOTE

Snapshot policy to check number of snapashots

Sometimes there is a problem when the policy try to create snapshot - like mmlssnapshot timeout - and this skip the creation of snapshots - and also deletion of the old snapshot by policy- this means that the older snapshot will not be delete by t...

4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

26 VOTE

Adding SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES for SpectrumScale

We need SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES.SLES has a market share of 99% in HANA on Power.HANA will be the only database for SAP.To use SpectrumScale in HANA environments we need SLES Support for smb.

over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

9 VOTE

Prometheus Exporter for zimon metrics

For our compute and Storage systems we are running a monitoring setup based on Prometheus in combination with the Prometheus node exporter and Alert manager. To monitor spectrum Scale health we have some self written scripts collecting metrics. Bu...

over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

4 VOTE

add --auto-inode-limit for independent filesets

In Storage Scale 5.1.4 mmcrfs/mmchfs introduced the --(no)auto-inode-limit switches. Unfortunately this only works for whole filesystems and cannot be finetuned for individual (independent) filesets. There are situations where you have a mixed env...

9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

5 VOTE

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

This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters

11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

5 VOTE

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...

11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

3 VOTE

Support for ROCKY Linux

Client is requesting ROCKY Linux support for their client nodes.

7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

3 VOTE

Storage Scale - Safe-guarded snapshots - allow expiration - give client to set its own expiration parameter in the GUI snapshot rule

By setting the "Allow Expiration" for snapshot rules under the GUI, it sets the snapshot only until the next execution, not for the whole retention, neither allows to client to sets its own retention. Based on the IBM Documentation "https://www.ib...

7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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