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    Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)

    Require a VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter) to be developed for SCALE / ESS. Have an urgent requirements for a SAS Grid implementation that will be deployed across two locations. Scale AFM Async D/R replication will be used replicate data b...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Simplify addition of "ephemeral" native clients

    To add a client to a Spectrum Scale cluster requires that both the client node is booted and for the administrator to run administrative commands on an admin node. In a virtualised environment where clients are elasticly created, this is difficult...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Messages Without Message IDs

    A product family such as IBM Spectrum Protect has a great many components, each of which can have hundreds or even thousands of messages. With so many messages, the customer will need some method to find explanations. In general, many messages are...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    RFE for GPFS - requirement for a non root user to be able to run their scripts under GPFS without errors / SELinux related

    It seems like there is a limitation in GPFS that a non-root user may not modify extended attributes of a file unless they are in the "user" namespace.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Make mmclone permissions work like cp

    Currently, a file clone created with mmclone always has its group owner set to the primary gid of the creating process, without regard to the setgid bit of the containing directory, and without regard to the group owner of the original file. Other...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Make mmclone permissions work like cp

    Currently, a file clone created with mmclone always has its group owner set to the primary gid of the creating process, without regard to the setgid bit of the containing directory, and without regard to the group owner of the original file. Other...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Enhance Installation Toolkit Support for Cluster with active usesudowrapper configuration

    We are planing to Implement saveguard vault design with use of saveguard snapshots. One requirement here the cluster must use sudowrapper as a prerequisite to work and beeing secure.The ansible installationtoolkit has currently no support for sudo...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Backup Client for Debian Linux

    Debian und viele andere Linuxdistributionen (z.B. Ubuntu, Univention, Knopix, ...) nutzen nicht das RedHat Packeage format rpm, sondern ein anderes Format namens .deb. Damit ist man bei der Erstellung der Pakete immer auf zusätzliche Konvertierung...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    modify mmsetquota to have --reset option

    We have received the subject pmr here in Spectrum Scale Level2. I read the request and It seems that customer is requesting a function similar to "mmedquota -t <fileset> --reset" ?? --resetWith this option, when grace time is modified, all r...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Avoid un-necessary audit logging for ls/mmlsattr/ILM list policy.

    ls/mmlsattr/ILM list POLICY are creating OPEN event logs. AFAIK, these actions doesn't open the file only read the metadata of a file, generating the audit logs on these kinda operations is creating lot of audit logs for us. It's mentioned in doc,...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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