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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Use built-in hardware encryption of NVME, SSD, or HDD drives

Currently encryption is optionally available at the 'GPFS layer': * https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.0?topic=administering-encryption While this may be useful, there is a lot of overhead in setting it up and maintaining it. Meanwhile...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add Support for Hardware Load Balancers like the F5

We are a large bank and a large enterprise customer. Not all Open-Source software is supported. HA-Proxy is one of those not supported. But we still need to Load balance the GPFS GUI. This is a requirement when hosting Scale in OCP. We need to pla...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Reflink/ficlone support

reflink/ficlone is a system call for making clones of files, where all data blocks is initially shared, and changes are then done through copy-on-write/redirect-on-write. This can be done through "cp --reflink", or IOCTL_FICLONERANGE system call. ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Request to add "all" option to put filesystem in maintenance mode

In order to shutdown/startup gpfs gracefully, it is recommended to put filesystem in maintenance mode using "mmchfs --maintenance-mode" cmd before shutdown. However, this command allow only one filesystem at a time. So if the customer has many fil...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Shorten CES failover/failback timeout

The io pending time in the failure of CES interface failure/CES node failure is 10s. Customer‘s expectation is 4-5s so that can improve usage experience.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Requests and limits for statefullset ibm-spectrum-scale-gui in Spectrum Scale container native shoud be configurable

Currently CPU request for gui pods is set to 500m. This request is too large for small clusters and pod typically use ~10m. This can prevent other workload to be sheduled and it's wastefull especially in small multicluster scenarios.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

CNSA / CSI add support for Access Mode ROX (ReadOnlyMany)

There are UseCases where Data should be shared between PODs or among different Clusters. To protect Data and prevent inconsistency it would be beneficial to enforce a ReadOnly Mode at OpenShift PV Level. Currently, ReadOnly can only be set in the ...
12 months 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
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

SIDhistory support needed for AD domain migration

Our customer is going to merge 2 hospitals into one new Active Directory domain and needs to have support for SIDhistory to keep access to files from both old domains. This is needed in SAMBA in CES. Support for SIDhistory is already available in ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

VMotion DRS Support for Scale RDM NSD + Quorum Nodes

This IDEA is to support vMotion for NSD RDM nodes. VMware clients - vMotion DRS is enabled by default, used by all clients. To use Scale RDM with ESXi - vMotion is either enabled (automatic) or disabled (manual). To confirm disabled simply means ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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