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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 28, 2016

[BDA]support data locality in a shared-storage environment

This RFE is requesting that GPFS be modified to support data locality in a shared storage environment by modifying the FPO featureset to support multiple NSD servers per NSD. This is requisite for leveraging data locality in a scale-out environment built on a model with multiple servers and cross connected RAID arrays. This approach has a much lower TCO than a replicated FPO configuration.

An interim, temporary workaround would be to provide toggleable functionality within the Hadoop Connector to expose locality information for non-FPO pools.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Technical Foundation

  • Guest
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    Nov 11, 2016

    This RFE's Headline was changed after submission to reflect the headline of an internal request we were already considering, but will now track here.

  • Guest
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    Aug 31, 2016

    .This will be supported in HDFS transparency 2.7.2-0. and it's in progress and wait for our notification when it's GAed

  • Guest
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    Mar 1, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #84607 in product Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs.