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

    Automatically clean up binaries of old scale releases after updating the product

    When upgrading Scale version (both server and client nodes) using published documentation, we noticed that old versions are accumulating in /usr/lpp/mmfs/ directories. # du -sh /usr/lpp/mmfs/* 717M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.1.9.3 385M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.2.0.1 ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly.

    Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly. ==========================nvme resv-register /dev/nvme1n1 --crkey=0x1 --nrkey=0x12345678 --rrega=0NVME Reservation success ==========================n...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Protocols - S3: virtual host style addressing of S3 buckets

    Virtual Host Style addressing (https://bucket.my-s3-server.com) is the preferred S3 addressing option for AWS - see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html Scale CES S3 does not support this out-of-the box yet. Wi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

    FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    mmbackup using virtualmountpoints for filesets

    We are submitting a Request for Enhancement (RFE) to improve the integration between IBM's mmbackup utility for Scale and IBM Storage Protect (formerly TSM). This enhancement will address significant performance bottlenecks we've encountered when ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

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

    Allow IBM Spectrum Protect Client installed directly on ESS Appliance Family

    When performing backup operations on ESS using MMbackup and IBM Spectrum Protect, the current architecture needs to have a Backup Proxy in order to configure the IBM Spectrum Protect and MMbackup. In this configuration, MMbackup currently forces t...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

    1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    IPv6 Support for Scale HDFS Transparency

    Add IPv6 Support for Scale HDFS Transparency, currently only IPv4 supported.
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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