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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 1, 2016

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RFE for support of "mmafmctl <filesystem> failoverToSecondary ?j <fileset> --norestore" within mmcesdr

AFM-based DR support a “--norestore” option when invoking

# mmafmctl <filesystem> failoverToSecondary –j <fileset> --norestore

e.g.
secondary# mmafmctl kyc2 failoverToSecondary -j sec02 --norestore
Primary Id (afmPrimaryId) 1494233589149940577-B840458754BD53C0-10
Fileset sec02 changed.
Promoted fileset sec02 to Primary

to ensure that the secondary is NOT rolled back to the point-in-time of the last RPO snapshot. This is essential if RPO snapshots are only be taken every 24 hours, else you might lose up to 24 hours of data when the rollback occurs.

The protocol replication management script mmcesdr does NOT currently support the --norestore” option when it invokes “mmafmctl <filesystem> failoverToSecondary”

The RFE is to request that that support is added to mmcesdr to avoid rollback to the last “RPO”/failover snapshot when failing over to the secondary.

Note that I am aware that mmcesdr already has another "no restore" option, but that only affects the protocols configuration information (only NFS and SMB) and does not do anything to the data itself.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     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 - V4 Product functionality

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 8, 2020

    Database cleanup of old requests. If this enhancement is still required, please submit a new request

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 2, 2016

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #93882 in product Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 2, 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.

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