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    Real time ransomware detection for IBM Storage Scale file systems and filesets

    IBM Storage Scale environment we need the capability for real-time ransomware detection. We use immutable snapshots for file systems and fileset already. Real-time ransomware detection gives us the ability to determine the last good immutable snap...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

    Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

    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_...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Integrate S3 commands into the REST API

    We have an automatic workflow which provisiones storage with the help of the REST API (and not mm* commands)Since we want to automate the S3 part, we need s3 commands in the REST API. So the request is to provide S3 administration via REST API, id...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3 Object Lock

    We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3 Glacier for Storage Protect managed tape libraries

    It seems the feature has been implemented in NooBaa, but Storage Scale still does not officially support the S3 Glacier feature. Without S3 Glacier support, S3 users have no idea that their data has been migrated. This creates challenges for syste...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: virtual host style addressing of S3 buckets

    Virtual Host Style addressing (https://bucket.my-s3-server.com) is the preferred S3 addressing option for AWS - see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html Scale CES S3 does not support this out-of-the box yet. Wi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    Allow IBM Spectrum Protect Client installed directly on ESS Appliance Family

    When performing backup operations on ESS using MMbackup and IBM Spectrum Protect, the current architecture needs to have a Backup Proxy in order to configure the IBM Spectrum Protect and MMbackup. In this configuration, MMbackup currently forces t...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

    1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Process and automation to simplify the patching and software update of large node count clusters

    Managaing the the currency of Spectrum/Storage Scale systems are difficult when you have over 1000 nodes within the cluster in question. The request is for the process and automation for both the local repository and cluster endpoints where upon r...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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