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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Include IBM Spectrum Scale Bridge for Grafana in the Storage Scale DAE release

The Grafana bridge feature is very useful in determining overall Filesystem usage and performance metrics. Currently the incorporated Storage Scale GUI does not provide the same level of client filesystem utilization, this is where the Bridge for ...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Scale CSI & CNSA should be package with base scale distribution

IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver and IBM Storage Scale Container Native are add-on interfaces that are included in the base licensing for IBM Storage Scale. They are currently only available via external repositories that requi...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

HA GUI synchronization for notification events

Changes to notification events are currently not synchronized to secondary GUI node in an HA GUI configuration. This lead to the problem, that I have to perform the "Mark as read" function for several GUI events at each GUI node separately, to get...
4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES Auth - SSSD

curently on CES nodes we can use only build-in gpfs winbind daemon to communicate with Microsoft AD. unfortunatelly with windbind we can not login to servers with AD users. therefore we must use windbind and sssd simultanously - that is not suppor...
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Azure Linux support for Scale ECE

Azure CTO has a mandate for all providing Core Applications to run on Azure Linux. In order to expand into HDFS environment ( 4 Exabytes of usable storage) , Scale ECE must run on Azure Linux. This is a request for ECE to run on Azure Linux.
17 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

GPFS 5.1.9.7 supports ubuntu22.04.1 (kernel: 5.15.0.136)

Several customers are experiencing OS panics using Ubuntu (5.15.0-72-generic). The GPFS version is 5.1.9.7 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.15.y&id=a5ee9fe48fa51a79620b041b27a94a05e7ac75a0 root...
26 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

Support both Ubuntu and Redhat upgrades through open source ansible scale roles with same repository

Support both Local existing APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles, also support Redhat /Sles Yum repository to support storage scale deployment..
28 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES NFS - identify client stale I/O errors

Following case - TS018623841.Client NFS when working with several NFS clients - each mounting different CES NFS node , loading python modules - get Stale I/O in random steps. 1. Same python is used through the same script.2. We use autofs to mount...
28 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES S3 - 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...
30 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Future consideration

Support for "directory swapping" (RENAME_EXCHANGE) on Linux

I propose adding support for the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag for directory renames in Storage Scale, to enable atomic directory swaps. Linux around kernel v3.15 added the renameat2 syscall which supports the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag to atomically swap two di...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration