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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

IAM user policies

In AWS S3, it is common practice to grant bucket access via IAM user policies. This is often much simpler and more straightforward than using bucket policies. The necessary structures have already been added to the noobaa source project. https://g...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

CNSA OpenShift Linux User Namespace Support

Linux user namespaces (hostUsers: false) in OpenShift 4.20 enable stronger workload isolation by removing the need for containers to run with host-level UIDs. This is a key security feature aligned with modern Kubernetes best practices and Red Hat...
21 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

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...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Future consideration

Enable custom certificates for Storage Scale CNSA GUI on OpenShift

We have to secure all Web GUIs with custom certificates from our In House CA. In detail we need the ibm-spectrum-scale-gui route from the ibm-spectrum-scale namespace to be secured by a custom certificate.
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Independent management of CES NFS and SMB service

Customer is using CES SMB and NFS.They are using Active Directory authentication.Customer cannot stop CES SMB service independently as NFS requires SMB to authenticate users with Active Directory.Error message: "Stop NFS first in order to stop SMB...
26 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Optimizations to the Spectrumscale ansible installer for larger clusters

For large clusters we are finding that it is taking a rather long time to run. We are looking for optimization like skipping unneeded checks and/or more parallelization for better performance and minimize customer downtime upgrade windows. One are...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot effeciency improvements

The cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot requirements made economic sense in the past, before mmvdisk began enforcing a minimum of 4 vdisks per Data Adapter (DA) on SSD-based Recovery Groups (RGs). Currently, in a single ESS Building Block, depending ...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Future consideration

Increase fileset limit

The current limits on number of filesets for a Storage Scale file system are: Maximum number of independent filesets per file system: 3000 Maximum number of AFM filesets per file system: 1500 Maximum number of filesets (dependent + independent) pe...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

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_...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Future consideration

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