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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Needs more information

request for status updates on cloudera manager interface when we restart/start/stop services from CLI .

Hi Team, Documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale-bda?topic=installing-cloudera-data-platform-private-cloud-base-spectrum-scale You need to stop the HDFS Transparency nodes because the Cloudera Manager can only manage HDFS Transpar...
2 days 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...
7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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...
15 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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 ...
7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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...
4 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_...
4 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...
4 months 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...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Future consideration

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.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

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