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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Enhance mmnfs config list output to state that NFS_KRB5 is active or not

We hit the Problem with mmnfs config change cmd issue (294665) that erased the NFS_KRB5 Section without indication of unhealty events or Info's in the mmnfs config list output. The idea here we request a addition in the output listing of mmnfs con...
almost 3 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...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Documentation and Error messages improvement

Overall Documentation and error messages needs improvement (IBM needs to ensure they are at least all listed).
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Client Encryption with IBM Spectrum Scale

Spectrum Protect backup encryption using include.Encrypt for Spectrum Scale client is not working due to unrecognized format "Include Encrypt". Error:mmbackup does not recognize this include rule format: Include Encrypt. The tsbackup33 perl script...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Enhance Installer Toolkit to support update keberized hdfs-scale cluster

We use scale 5.1.3.0 to update our scale hdfs-transparency cluster to update this Version from 5.1.2.2. During the ./spectrumscale upgrade precheck we see a error:Both namenodes are in stand by state, but the haaadmin cmd -getAllServiceState list ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Windows 10 Native Client

Need a Windows 10 native client committed for roadmap this year otherwise we will continue to loose opportunities.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

GPFS SMB - dfree command

We are deploying GPFS into production enviroment, but GPFS has problem with SMB service. SMB service (smbd) reports double size share than is real. This is caused by filesystem replication on two storwize V5010.The solution of this problem is to u...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Restripe options for balance and policy

Restriping a file or a filesystem can be done for balance or to change location policy or both. However the -b option even when it gets to a relatively balanced state continues to reassign locations and move data when wadfg uses random placement e...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

SuSE Kernel Updates caused GPFS incompatibility.

GM was forced to perform 2 GPFS upgrades across 3 large clusters due to SuSE security patches conflicting with GPFS. SuSE and IBM are requested to work together to keep this from happening going forward.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Loss of access with nsddevices script

This is the follow up of case TS001236089 when customer copy the script "nsddevices" to the directory /var/mmfs/etc/ on ESS I/O nodes that prevent the code to discover disks for the recovery groups which result in loss access. This RFE is to addre...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered