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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Detailed information about a problematic inode

“When we encounter an issue caused by or impacting a specific file which leads to deadlock conditions in the file locking functionality that scale supports the Scale development is able to provide us with an inode value after analysis of gpfs.snap...
17 minutes ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

expand the number of hosts that a nodeclass can have

Clients want to add more than 1k hosts to a nodeclass.
4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Signed kernel modules for Ubuntu 24.04

Signed kernel modules, as delivered for RHEL, is necessary to run Ubuntu servers with Secure Boot enabled.
18 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Enable mmbackup to Work on Dependent Filesets

Currently, mmbackup does not support running directly on dependent filesets. This limitation creates operational challenges in environments where independepdent fileset reach upto max limit (3000) . Customers cannot prevent dependent filesets grow...
19 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

killing running mmbackup processes on all participating nsd server

In some circumstances (maintenance window / problem investigation) it is important for us to kill all mmbackup sessions on a scale cluster. We, as the storage and backup admingroup in our company struggeling currently in missing a feature that mmb...
29 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly.

Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly. ==========================nvme resv-register /dev/nvme1n1 --crkey=0x1 --nrkey=0x12345678 --rrega=0NVME Reservation success ==========================n...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Enable inline compression of files at ingestion for IBM Storage Scale

Our client needs to have the option to compress some well-known files inline, at ingestion -first write- time. Their goal is to enable this compression on the gpfs clients. They use remote-mounts to connect to their gpfs filesystems (having ESS as...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Backpressure for virtual disk I/O to prevent throughput and IOPS overload to avoid "Forcing kernel panic to clear hung I/O".

When a cluster reboots, the recovery process can generate a lot of I/O ( high throughput and IOPS ) which might hit the limits of the virtual disk. And unlike physical disks, when virtual disks get overwhelmed, we can see I/O hang for up to second...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

Assigning less CES IPs than CES Nodes to a cluster should not throw a warning

Hi! If you have multiple CES Nodes in a cluster but only one (or less CES IPs than CES Nodes) every CES Node, which does not have a IP assigned will throw the warning "ces_network_ips_down". This is very misleading, because the IPs aren't down on ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

CES Support for L3 BGP Network

Currently CES only supports Layer 2 networks where there is a specific subnet such as 192.168.20.0/24 where the virtual IP (VIP) addresses for CES would get assigned to an interface such as eth0 on a node. This does NOT work with Layer 3 networks ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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