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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Support both Ubuntu and Redhat upgrades through open source ansible scale roles with same repository

Support both Local existing APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles, also support Redhat /Sles Yum repository to support storage scale deployment..
10 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Support for "directory swapping" (RENAME_EXCHANGE) on Linux

I propose adding support for the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag for directory renames in Storage Scale, to enable atomic directory swaps. Linux around kernel v3.15 added the renameat2 syscall which supports the RENAME_EXCHANGE flag to atomically swap two di...
18 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent

CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent. In order to improve their monitoring integration with Grafana, client needs to shorten the frequency of some GUI tasks . I used the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/chtask <task> --period <...
20 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Enhance gpl-build logic to check the right packages before the build-run

This request is an important feature to close the gap to generate more stability in building gpl module on supported plattform. Today there are no check if the mmbuildgpl cmd are run that the installed packages are on the right version. Currently ...
28 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)

Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Directory method upgrade to support efix package of core packages through open source ansible scale roles.

Directory method upgrade to support efix package of core packages through open source ansible scale roles.
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Directory method Installation and Upgrade support of scale deployment through open source ansible scale roles.

Directory method Installation and Upgrade support of scale deployment through open source ansible scale roles.
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Support APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles.

Support Local existing APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles.
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Streamline command line parameters

mmhealth knows --unhealty. mmvdisk pdisk list knows --not-ok. Both essentially are meaning the same: only display the problematic stuff. I constantly keep confusing these two and use the wrong one. So I suggest to support both for all commands the...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Add reasoning to hidden mmhealth events

When applying gpfs updates it sometime happens that new TIPS events appear. Some of these tips recomment to carefully check the situation and maybe hide the event. It would be really helpful if you could add a user specifiend comment th the hide c...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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