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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 13, 2023

Decrease memory requirement in CES.

The Scale FAQ list CES node need 128GB memory. It's huge to most of SMB scenarios. Most of Customer often have 50/100/200 SMB/NFS connections per CES ndoe pair. Customer hope to support 16G/32G/64G/128G memory models in CES node. If it's no, customer want to know how many memory size that can be support in 50/100/200 sessions(NFS/SMB/NFS+SMB) model ?

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Apr 21, 2023
    Thank you for submitting this Spectrum Scale enhancement request. We have reviewed the request, and although it is a good candidate, it is not on our roadmap for the foreseeable future.