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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 5, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

eliminate lack of I/O on mmdelsnapshot start

When deletion of bunch of snapshots starts we a lack of I/O for about three minutes.
NFS Clients see a huge delay of I/O. Related applications hanging for this time and user connections and run into timeouts (e.g http connections for apps that store data on NFS).

mmhealth reports failed NFS services for this timeframe.

Please eleminate or dramatically reduce this lack of I/O.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 13, 2022

    Has this been resolved. the last up date doen't indicate the state of things.


  • 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 - Technical Foundation

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 17, 2020

    Ongoing improvements in Quiesce should address this in upcoming releases.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 27, 2020

    We have a project under way to optimize various aspects of snapshot performance and will include this request in the planning

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