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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    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.
    9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Identify nodes having open files which blocks quiesce file system/filesets

    We had the situation that the unlink fileset command failed: [root@xstm-d07-01 samples]# mmunlinkfileset exa_project1 training2601 -f Unable to quiesce fileset at all nodes. Fileset training2601 has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. mmunlink...
    28 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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 ...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Needs more information

    Support In-Transit Encryption at Filesystem Level for Remote FS

    Current versions of Scale only allows In-transit encryption (ciphers) at cluster level which restricts users from choosing which filesystem to enable in-transit encryption and which filesystem to use authonly mode. A new feature in the future rele...
    15 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    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...
    22 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    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...
    11 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_...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Assigning less CES IPs than CES Nodes to a cluster should not throw a warning

    Hi! If you have multiple CES Nodes in a cluster but only one (or less CES IPs than CES Nodes) every CES Node, which does not have a IP assigned will throw the warning "ces_network_ips_down". This is very misleading, because the IPs aren't down on ...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    AFM: Primary AFM Gateway is selected from one of gateway nodes in afm target map definitions

    For AFM-RO use case, currently afmGateway accepts all or a single primary gateway. Please provide another option where the afmGateway is chosen amongst the nodes defined in the afm target map definition
    11 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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