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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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CES S3 IPv6 Support

Support for IPv6 networking with CES S3 (Noobaa)
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

HA GUI synchronization for notification events

Changes to notification events are currently not synchronized to secondary GUI node in an HA GUI configuration. This lead to the problem, that I have to perform the "Mark as read" function for several GUI events at each GUI node separately, to get...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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..
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES NFS - identify client stale I/O errors

Following case - TS018623841.Client NFS when working with several NFS clients - each mounting different CES NFS node , loading python modules - get Stale I/O in random steps. 1. Same python is used through the same script.2. We use autofs to mount...
5 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...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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 <...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES S3 - subnet restrictions in S3 bucket policies

One of our ESS clusters stores highly sensitive data for around two thousand projects that needs to be kept strictly separate between projects, so we neeed the possibility to add subnet-requirements to buckets for proper data separation, like we c...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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.
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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