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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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AFM Caching from NFS Server on Non-Standard Port

Add the ability for NFS server/export to be used as a "home" on a non-standard configurable port. This should capability should also be in the AFM parallel data transfer mappings.
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Spectrum Scale CNSA - add more configuration options to cluster CRD

During our implementation phase of Spectrum Scale CNSA on OpenShift clusters we identify that current options in the cluster CRD are not sufficient for various use-cases. So it will be great to configure at least number of replicas and resources f...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

we need an a way to avoid such NFS System Hang IO when any of protocol nodes restarted and ganesha go in grace period time ...i suggest to enhance in way of ganesha work to avoid clients that connected to other protocol nodes to affect with this time and only cliets that connected to this rebooted node hange in time of grace period until VIP move to another availabe node ...As we have a Big cluster with 6 nodes of protocol nodes and when one of them go down all banking sectors affected with this time of grace period ..hope to find us a solution for this long time problem desing.

because not all system will go down and only clients that connected to protocol node affected one will disconnect only and other will still working fine. all mega projects that use Spectrum scale and to avoid SPOF description when one of protocol ...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Provide a changelog for Scale releases

Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Monitoring quota usage per fileset (not inodes, capacity usage)

Hi team, we found a gap in quota monitoring of spectrum scale filesets, we have the capability to monitor inode usage per-fileset, but not quota consumption in terms of capacity. Becasuse of that we urgently need a feature that could alert us when...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

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. ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow use of directory other then /tmp for GPFS temporary files.

We use GPFS / Spectrum Storage on our High Performance Computing Cluster for it's primary file system and use various mm* commands to monitor the health of the cluster and alert us if GPFS goes offline on a node. If a users HPC compute job inadver...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Support TLS 1.3 for use with IBM SKLM

Industry is requiring stronger current encryption levels.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES NFS - health event if FD hard limit is above the threshold

Ganesha NFS server has a limit of max. open files, which is calculated by 80% of the maxFilesToCache parameter. If Ganesha Server is reaching this limit, Ganesha NFS server will stop working and all NFS clients will loose access to data. In curren...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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