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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Spectrum Scale, dosen't access to the secondary Active Directory(AD), in spite of AD is Active-Active redundant configuration

*Re-Submitted from ID:134412Please cancel the request of 134412. We are facing to the following situation and our client strongly request to resolve this issue as soon as possible. We think that the function of SS about keeping session with AD sho...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Make GPFS GUI port configurable

We would like to have the GPFS GUI port configurable to something different from 443.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add support for Subject Alternate Name in certificate request through the GUI.

Chrome 58 and above now checks for the presence of the Subject Alternate Name in the certificate. If it isn't found, the certificate is deemed to be insecure or broken. The new GUI certificate request feature should ask the user for the SAN name d...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Make mmsdrrestore command able to restore Zimon configuration files

The files /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonCollector.cfg and /opt/IBM/zimon/ZIMonSensors.cfg are needed for the pmcollector and pmsensors daemons.When a node is re-installed we use the mmsdrrestore command to restore the GPFS node configuration. Unfortunately ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Quota management delegation

I was discussing removal of root use for commands with ibm dev Germany and this came up. Need the ability to delegate quota management to different groups of users on large scale file systems. You can have different admins for different teams resp...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

GPFS for Linux aarch64

Publish GPFS / Spectrum Scale for Linux on aarch64 aarch64 is supported by all Linux Versions (Ubuntu, Suse, Redhat) but not by gpfs
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Rolling upgrade of CES protocol node with object services

Current operation: Because object operations interact with all nodes, all object nodes must be at the same level. Therefore, object services need to be stopped across the cluster for the duration of the upgrade. This RFE is for allowing rolling up...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Provide efficient read-only file-level snapshots

Today, mmclone can be used to effectively provide a read-only snapshot of a single file (mv origfile snapfile ; mmclone snap snapfile ; mmclone copy snapfile origfile). But to clean up the snapshot when it is no longer needed requires mmclone spli...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support LibFabrics

As more high speed networks are available (IB,OmniPath, Etc ROCE, other RDMA capable networks) The Open Fabrics org has defined a more generic interface then libverbs (which is very network specific) to enable make it easier to take advantage of n...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Online update of Spectrum Scale Clients

I would like to have the ability to update spectrum scale releases on clients online without shuting down the gpfs on each client. So the new feature should contain an "on the fly" replacement of the kernel module during usage of the gpfs filesyst...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration