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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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CES S3 - S3 Bucket Notification

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'versioning' in S3 buckets

Versioning in Amazon S3 is a means of keeping multiple variants of an object in the same bucket. You can use the S3 Versioning feature to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your buckets. With versioning you can...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

CES S3 - S3 Bucket Lifecycle

One common use of S3 lifecycle policies is to automatically delete objects after a specified period. For instance, businesses can set up a policy to delete temporary files or logs older than 90 days, ensuring that unnecessary data does not clutter...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Scale S3/Noobaa tiering to tape

With the new capability S£/Nooba replacing S3/Swift we would use the Scale ILM capability to move buckets/filesets from disk to tape thanks to Storage Archive integration
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Implement upstream NooBaa Changes that support recent Amazon S3 server/client changes

Recent client side changes to the aws cli utility as well as the Amazon boto3 python libraries have broken functionality of using the s3 gateway. From Amazon: In AWS CLI v2.23.0, we released changes to the S3 client that adopts new default integri...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

eliminate lack of I/O on mmdelsnapshot start

When deletion of bunch of snapshots starts we a lack of I/O for about three minutes.NFS Clients see a huge delay of I/O. Related applications hanging for this time and user connections and run into timeouts (e.g http connections for apps that stor...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

HPO to support InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to have HPO support for deployment on InfiniBand infrastructure.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

HPO to support AFM managed data along with data transfer to AWS S3

In order to provide high-performance hybrid-cloud object storage for Analytics & AI, within HPO, it is required to process S3 object data via AFM to on-prem AND on AWS S3. To place/move objects intelligently on/to AWS S3, HPO AFM needs to supp...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

mmbackup dry-run mode

The mmbackup command is intended for highly-scalable backups of IBM Spectrum Scale (SS) filesystems to one or more IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) servers using the SS policy engine to identify files and the SP client software to send them to SP. The co...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Generate dial homes for ESS storage enclosures

Currently - ESS does not generate dial homes for hardware failures on storage enclosures.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered