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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
15 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Support custom URL for S3 storage integration with AFM

We would like AFM COS S3 integration to allow custom URLs for the S3 storage. The product we use to provide S3 storage requires custom URLs, and as such, currently can't be integrated into AFM. Any user groups who also have custom URLs for S3 stor...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Command to force Dynamic Pagepool to shrink to minimum size

When utilizing the dynamic pagepool during IO operations, the pagepool automatically expands until possibly reaching its maximum allocated size. It then remains at that level, even after the IO operations have completed, until additional memory (m...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Efficient Deletion of Fileset backup data based on mmBackup per Fileset

We are running multi-petabyte Scale file systems in our HPC environment. User data is organized per project using independent filesets. The backup of user data is performed using mmBackup per fileset. For new projects, a new fileset is created. Wh...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Node Designation/Role Listed in mmlscluster

Any node designation that is possible with the mmchnode command should be listed in the output of mmlscluster for that specific node. This will provide a quality of life improvement when figuring out exactly which node is serving which purpose. Fo...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance Interface of CES-S3 to add a functionality to create automaticaly a fileset for the bucket path, if a s3 user use s3 mb cmd over the AWS cli

With this feature we can use the filesetquota function, snapshot-funktion to maintain the usage and backup of the underlying fs.
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Expediting file system recovery for very large environments

Enterprise Scale environments are typically comprised of a large quantity of i-nodes and/or file counts for footprints of a few hundred PB in a single filesystem. When an unexpected event occurs, such as fs log corruption, running mmfsck to recove...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance Install-Toolkit to add Firewall configuration support for rhel9

Our current rhel9 Systems that are provisioned has firewalld system service actice bei default. This generate a requirement to define the nessacary firewall roules for scale.These are our current cmd's that we used: firewall-cmd --add-port=10080/t...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Recover failed Ganesha node - which mark with F flag, without reboot.

Hi We had NFS Ganesha node that failed - but we did not able to recover it , only reboot solve it. Sysmon attempted to remove the F flag three times, but all attempts to acquire the lock failed.As a result, the node remained in a failed state desp...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Add offical Support for s3A semantics in CES-S3 Protocol

Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration