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Search results: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Scale GUI Statistics Save, Generate report, and Forward Selections

Provide the ability in the Scale GUI Statistics monitoring page to save custom settings for easy re-use and ability to forward these selections to the Dashboard page for use in a monitoring widget. There are pre-set statistics monitoring selection...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Storage Scale - Safe-guarded snapshots - allow expiration - give client to set its own expiration parameter in the GUI snapshot rule

By setting the "Allow Expiration" for snapshot rules under the GUI, it sets the snapshot only until the next execution, not for the whole retention, neither allows to client to sets its own retention. Based on the IBM Documentation "https://www.ib...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable mmapplypolicy function via REST-API

Client has one self-service REST-API based application developed for providing SMB/NFS shares to their clients. They have different storage pools, and their clients can define which tier they want the data to be stored, and also select over time t...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

mmbackup enhancements

mmbackup has no support of application that generate the Content of the same file with a temporary file, and if finish renamed these temp file to original name. SAS-Institute with the *.sas7bdat.lck as temp and *.sas7bdat as original filename are ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

CTDB recovery timeout improvement

Multiple protocol nodes are stuck in wait state when pn01 is selected to be the master recovery causing loss of access of the whole cluster. However pn01 is hung and stuck due to kernel oops issue. After pn01 is rebooted and no GPFS running, pn03 ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Account SE

System: Spectrum ScaleRefer the case ID TS002297333. Actor: User needing new feature for Recovery In customer's environment, there are 2 AD servers to have reliability when the one AD server get down.Spectrum scale(SS) can't get the bemefit of it ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

selective objectizer feature needed

In unfied file and object env, there is some cases that ibmobjectizer should have an option to run only some selective filesets or containers to avoid sudden additional heavy workload due to ibmobjectizer run.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

GPFS filespace update

GPFS runs the mmbackup which does not update the backup start and backup end parameters on the tsm client node. This parameter is updated when a regular node runs a backup. The backup for a GPFS node runs a selected backup and does not update the ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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