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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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HDFS transparency: Support Certificates with 4096 key length

As security requirements rise more and more, it is essential to support for HDFS transparency certificates with 4096 key length instead of only 2048.
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Additional information needed about mmbackup jobs

The mmbackup command uses the Scale policy engine to determine what needs to be backed up. It should be possible to get additional information about the backup from the policy engine, including the amount of data to be backed up. This kind of info...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

DMAPI call dm_fd_to_handle can cause kernel crash

Our concerns centre around the behaviour of dm_fd_to_handle and dm_path_to_handle. According to the Data Storage Management (XDSM) API specification, these functions should fail with ENXIO when “The file system containing the file opened on fd or ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Enhance mmkeyserv to make configs possible with CA signed Rest-API Certs.

Currently to define the mmkeyserv rkm Config in an CA-Trusted GKLM Environment where the https/Rest-API Certs are CA signed the configuration are not possibly. This is a security flow and can not accepted in the area of cybercrime. The current pos...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

expel the right node although the node is high priority

one ethernet port in one of quorum nodes flapping leading the cluster manger to expel lots of other health nodes in several hours, till the gpfs can not provides service. IBM should add reasonable expel rules to expel the problem node As Alibaba k...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Increase Quorum Node MAximum limit from 8 to 9

Required for HSBC : Scale 5.1.x on Linux on x86. Stretch cluster across 3 x phys sites. Client has failure tolerence requirement for Scale stretch cluster to tolerate as follows: Scale must tolerate a single site failure AND a single quorum node f...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Retrieving GPFS migration attributes

Retrieving GPFS migration attributes
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Support for multiple daemon networks

Currently GPFS has a major networking restriction which is (from the developer works site): When configuring a GPFS cluster you start by defining an IP address that can be used for all nodes to communicate. This is the IP address that you specify...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Enhance mmnfs config list output to state that NFS_KRB5 is active or not

We hit the Problem with mmnfs config change cmd issue (294665) that erased the NFS_KRB5 Section without indication of unhealty events or Info's in the mmnfs config list output. The idea here we request a addition in the output listing of mmnfs con...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Enhance Installer Toolkit to support update keberized hdfs-scale cluster

We use scale 5.1.3.0 to update our scale hdfs-transparency cluster to update this Version from 5.1.2.2. During the ./spectrumscale upgrade precheck we see a error:Both namenodes are in stand by state, but the haaadmin cmd -getAllServiceState list ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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