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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'versioning' in S3 buckets

Versioning in Amazon S3 is a means of keeping multiple variants of an object in the same bucket. You can use the S3 Versioning feature to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your buckets. With versioning you can...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Enable support for SLES as NFS Client on IBM Power Platform

Many SAP Customers in Europe are running SLES for their HANA DB Workload on IBM Power Systems. Due to the current search for software that offers the customer HA cluster NFS (cNFS) server functionality, Spectrum Scale is an ideal solution. But to...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

eliminate lack of I/O on mmdelsnapshot start

When deletion of bunch of snapshots starts we a lack of I/O for about three minutes.NFS Clients see a huge delay of I/O. Related applications hanging for this time and user connections and run into timeouts (e.g http connections for apps that stor...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Planned for future release

To simplify the deployment of workloads in the cloud, IBM must improve the performance of the Scale command "mmaddnode" to allow for faster spin up/down of resources.

Nodes in the cloud need to be spun up quickly as needed. Currently mmaddnode takes too long to add a significant number of nodes as it sequentially adds nodes to the cluster; not only that, but other commands like mmchlicense, mmchnodeclass, and m...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Storage Scale support only Rsyslog for log monitoring instead of syslog-NG

Storage Scale supports only Rsyslog for log management, but has several security risks. The better solution would be support for syslog-NG
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Prometheus Exporter for zimon metrics

For our compute and Storage systems we are running a monitoring setup based on Prometheus in combination with the Prometheus node exporter and Alert manager. To monitor spectrum Scale health we have some self written scripts collecting metrics. Bu...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Increase the maximum number of independent filesets per filesystem

Currently we are hovering under 1000 independent file sets within the user file system. Even taking into account file sets that are removed when users leave site it is very possible that we will hit the limit within a year.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

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