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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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 ...
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

request for status updates on cloudera manager interface when we restart/start/stop services from CLI .

Hi Team, Documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale-bda?topic=installing-cloudera-data-platform-private-cloud-base-spectrum-scale You need to stop the HDFS Transparency nodes because the Cloudera Manager can only manage HDFS Transpar...
4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Azure Linux support for Scale ECE

Azure CTO has a mandate for all providing Core Applications to run on Azure Linux. In order to expand into HDFS environment ( 4 Exabytes of usable storage) , Scale ECE must run on Azure Linux. This is a request for ECE to run on Azure Linux.
25 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 ...
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...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

gpfs.snap command and --sosreport option

If the gpfs.snap command contains the "--sosreport" option, you must be able to specify the node that collects the sosreport. But it doesn't seem to have that feature at the moment. (GPFS 5.2.2.0) When using the "--sosreport" option, could you pro...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Allow multiple targets in an AFM-fileset (AFM-S3 only perhaps)

It would be good if we could have data coming from multiple sources in an AFM fileset. Perhaps a client has data that needs to be presented from NFS and S3. The application would have to talk to two different filesets to get data. The current use ...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 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.
2 months 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.
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

GUI : capacity information consistency

Different information/ mismatch between ‘used capacity’ and ‘total capacity’. Monitoring -> Files -> Filesets -> view details -> used capacity Due to the fact, that two file copies are made on the filesystem on ESS storage cluster , th...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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