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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket

A topic we discussed with the client was the ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket. This can be achieved with bucket policies. However, in Scale S3 we do not support the Condition clause of a bucket policy. The condition ...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

mmdsh rest api command

With the transition from ssh-based commanding to the Rest API, the functionality of mmdsh needs to be maintained. Currently, this command's functionality will no longer be supported once a cluster is migrated off of ssh-based communications. Many ...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Enable remote Clusters to connect at all local interfaces

For security or performance reasons the network is divided into different zones, either to isolate different tenants or to separate different types of network traffic. To enable multitenancy, a Storage Scale Cluster should be able to serve multipl...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Add filter to FAL (File Audit Log), so it's possible to ignor specific events

When FAL is enabled, it's all or nothing. When enabled in a bussy enviroemnt the number of events is high. It will be possitive if it was possible to ignoge specific events (ex. directory list) so the number of events could drop in number
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Include IBM Spectrum Scale Bridge for Grafana in the Storage Scale DAE release

The Grafana bridge feature is very useful in determining overall Filesystem usage and performance metrics. Currently the incorporated Storage Scale GUI does not provide the same level of client filesystem utilization, this is where the Bridge for ...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Under review

now ibm csi issue job to gui, gui only has 16 threads to handle it, in some condition it is very slow, gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task

gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Enhance Scale ansible toolkit to deploy zimonGrafana Bridge

Eliminate manual effort to add zimonGrafana Bridge
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Enhance the Policy Engine to process newline chars (0x0A) in path names.

We run GHI over Storage Scale for user file systems and have to cope with all sorts of path names. GHI makes use of the policy engine for data movement (migration, purging). We think that any path name working in (core) Storage Scale has also to b...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Storage Scale Recompilation Requirement Post-RHEL Kernel Upgrade

Request IBM to remove the need for binary kernel module recompilation after RHEL kernel updates for IBM Storage Scale. This requirement adds operational overhead and complexity to patching and automation processes. While RHEL provides stable ABIs ...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Preview of mmreclaimspace for a determinate threshold

The idea is to have a preview of the mmreclaimspace without actually running it to have an idea of how much space will be recovered by a certain threshold. This can be interesting due to the lower the threshold is, the more impacte in performance ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review