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    Create backupset from directory container stgpool

    Directory containers give much better performance compared to the "old" version of dedup, but it makes it impossible to create Backupsets (and export) which several of my customers are using to get an annual backup offsite
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Protocols - SMB performance statistics for shares

    EMS GUI (Monitoring > Statistics) only provides SMB performance statistics for cluster or node level. Having stats on each individual SMB share would be very useful. NFS shares have such stats.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    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...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    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...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Request for Spectrum Scale to support Redhat SSSD as 3rd Authentication Method

    Request for Spectrum Scale to support RedHat Systems Security Software Daemon (SSSD) as a third authentication method. Salesforce # TS001343971
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Efficient Deletion of Fileset backup data based on mmBackup per Fileset

    We are running multi-petabyte Scale file systems in our HPC environment. User data is organized per project using independent filesets. The backup of user data is performed using mmBackup per fileset. For new projects, a new fileset is created. Wh...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Operations Center: Automatic PMR Creation and Support Bundle Upload

    Automated open/creation of PMR from Spectrum Protect Operations Center and upload of Support Data Collection Bundle
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale should support resource management using cgroups version 2 with systemd

    The current systemd version in RHEL 8 is now capable doing resource management using cgroups version 2.We are interested in the feature to configure I/O bandwidth. But to use it a device is needed: IOReadIOPSMax=device IOPS, IOWriteIOPSMax=device ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Support Red Hat IPA for mmuserauth

    Red Hat IPA / FreeIPA is an identity and authentication source similar to Active Directory. It has LDAP for user information, and kerberos for authentication. It can integrate with Active Directory through trust and replication, and will then cont...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under 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...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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