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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Remove distinction between private and public IP address ranges

Remove the distinction between processing for private IP address ranges 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0 and the other one and public IP address ranges. Process the private subnet ranges the same way public IP address ranges are processed. Remove the undocum...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

FTP and HTTP CES support

Support FTP and HTTP access on CES protocol nodes.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

To develop a report that shows overall capacity consumed per user that adds up local and offline files and versions

Current quota management on Spectrum Scale only considers consumed space of local files. With the introduction of features such Transparent Cloud Tiering for COS, it is needed a control over the space users are consuming for both local and offline...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Security: Spectrum Scale read-only access on client nodes

We would like to distribute software using a Spectrum Scale filesystem to compute nodes in an HPC environment but want to make sure malicous users cannot modify files which would enable them to spread malware. In NFS environments this can be estab...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64

support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support for Grouping protocol nodes for separate workloads

Client would like the ability to group Protocol nodes for specific uses rather than having every protocol sharing every export.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add NDMP Plugin Functionality for Spectrum Scale File System Backup

Since Spectrum Scale Cluster 5.1.1 containing ESS3000 nodes can hold billions of files in a file system, its a must feature to come up with NDMP plugin in the Spectrum Scale for backup purpose to speed up the backup performance. Backing up files d...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Make supported use of additional samba parameters

In order to supply our storage users with the same user experience as on former SONAS share, we want to make supported use of additional sambashare parameters:# File browsinghide dot files = yes/nohide files = lost+foundhide special files = yes/no...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Call Home for AIX

Provide the Call Home feature for AIX like the Linux feature
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency

The client cluster obtains the interface for creating iops/latency
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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