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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 12, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

using remote clients as helper nodes for policy scans and processing migration

Usually, IBM recommends to pool all ESS Storage Servers in a so called storage cluster and then  connect one or multiple remote client / or so called / compute clusters to the ESS. In fact, thats meanwhile a common best practice cluster topology. 
On the other hand , for performance reasons and to keep the storage cluster as robust as possible, any addtional wokrload - other than doing NSD work - should not be scheduled to the ESS NSD servers. 

So a customer , having the need to work with policies, is in trouble, because policy action needs to be run in the cluster, that "owns" the file system, which is by nature the ESS cluster. 

in adition: 

A reasonable performance impact, when using policy engine , is the number of involved nodes. typically, customers have hundreds or thousands of nodes... but in the compute cluster. The number of nodes in the storage cluster a failry small..

 

Therfore we would like to see  the enhancement, that we can use the remote client nodes to do policy work. 

There is an already existing EPIC  291831  to that, but this Epic only adress's half of the issue - the scanning phase. Here, by this IDEA, we want to also get the processing/migration part included. 

 

Idea priority High

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