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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Spectrum Scale Toolkit support for separated admin and daemon network

    Due to security, some clients have different IPs for daemon and for admin network, in a Spectrum Scale Cluster, and current version of Toolkit does not support different networks.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CES NFS - ganesha_stats improvements

    It's difficult to troubleshoot client related issues from the CES cluster. Need a command that output a list of the top clients by amount of operations on the shares. It's necessary in case of situations when clients create load that impedes the r...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Support 256 or more cluster watches per cluster.

    Only 25 cluster watches are supported per cluster, but we need 256 at least.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Automate Spectrum Scale AFM Role Reversal Process for Failover

    Request to Automate the IBM Spectrum Scale Filesystem's AFM Role Reversal Process used during failover event.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    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...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Adding Support of Noobaa Metrics with Integration in Zimon Sensors

    Currently the existing mmces protocols has integration of metrics in the zimon Sensor Framework, but the newest one, mms3 (noobaa-core) don't. We use the current zimonGrafanaBgridge to visualize these Metrics in Grafana. The current available func...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    API enhancement for File System Size and Utilization

    In the current version (5.1.8) the api does not have a usable endpoint for the filesystem to show Current File System Size (Data/System) File system utilisation (size / %used)
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Accelerate re-balance actions when adding new ECE nodes into existing RG

    Partner was opened two cases about expanding ECE nodes to existing RG. The re-balance progress was very slowly. The action was last for 3 months when adding 3 new ECE nodes into existing 5 ECE nodes topology.This is not a acceptable solution to cu...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Feature Enhancement to support multiple infiniband partition key

    Increase security against eavesdropping by limiting the access to resources using infiniband partition so cross talk and malicious attacks can be eliminate
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Support ILM pool migrations in stretched cluster without killing WAN

    Currently when migrating files between replicated storage pools in a stretched cluster, intense load is experienced on the WAN. This is because the migration is essentially a copy of the files (hopefully?? respecting readReplicaPolicy) and the wri...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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