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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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When tape data is encrypted, but Spectrum Scale recall cache and Stub files are not, how do we encrypt those without recalling the data off tape?

Using both Storage Archive and Storage Scale system (ESS) we need to be able to encrypt the data on ESS without impacting or recalling the tape data (Which is already encryped via the TS4500 Library). The client will be migratiing from Gen2 ESS to...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Introduce effective quality management

During the last year, we saw many new ISS code levels, most of them with critical errors that could lead to data corruption or data loss. Fortunately, many costumers were spared from data corruption, but they had to update Scale nearly monthly to ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Quota calculation and capacity presentation based on files size

User quota and file set quota are calculated based on allocated capacity on GPFS (kb_allocated). If files are moved to an external tier, e.g. by transparent cloud tiering, the file system utilisation will be decreased. Storage admins should have t...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Allow group owners to also query filesets

We have user filesets (independent) that are owned by root but the group is actually the user. Unfortunately Spectrum Scale seems not to take group ownership into account and only the owner can query the fileset (mmlsfileset) which seems overly re...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow remote mount for fileset in different paths on the remote cluster to mou

With the new functionality of remote mount controlled by fileset, it gives the opportunity to grant or deny access to different filesets within the same file system. Although the functionality is deployed on the owning cluster, at the remote clust...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

implement ability to remote mount a fileset instead of a full filesystem
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

CES support on SLES 12 SP3 Little Endian

Recompile the CES packages to support SLES 12 SP3 on Power 8 and newer processors. There is already support in place for RHEL, but some customers are using SLES as their primary OS primarily due to SAP Hana installations and there is no support fo...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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