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My ideas: Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Protocols SMB online update support

With Spectrum Scale Protocols 5.0, SMB Update node by node should be possible online without downtime/business impact.Actually this is not possible.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

Add SAML support

At the present time, SAML does not seems to be supported, only LDAP.
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

NFS Ganesha server to support over 4TB user quota report.

User quota below 4TB report currect :$ quota -s Disk quotas for user ibm (uid 1000): Filesystem space quota limit grace files quota limit grace 10.155.7.115:/gpfs/gpfs0/ibm 18414M 4000G 0K 33 0 0 User quota over 4TB report this capacity which is...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance REST API to GET/SET all availabe Filesystem Parameter i.e --auto-inode-limit

CNSA requires filesystemes with option --auto-inode-limit to be enabled. That Option is currently not available via REST API "get /scalemgmt/v2/filesystems/{filesystemName}". We utilize the REST API to verify all required storage parameter before ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support Red Hat IPA for mmuserauth

Red Hat IPA / FreeIPA is an identity and authentication source similar to Active Directory. It has LDAP for user information, and kerberos for authentication. It can integrate with Active Directory through trust and replication, and will then cont...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

To include support of remote CES Object Clusters

Currently, The Official Spectrum Scale Documentation states the following main points.• This setup(Remote Clusters) cannot be used for Object or iSCSI services.• The storage cluster must not have any protocol nodes (CES must be disabled). https://...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale Management API does not distinguish between NFSv4 and POSIX ACLs

When using the GET ACL request https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_5.0.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r03.doc/bl1adm_apiv2getfilesystemacl.htm It _always_ reports the ACL is of the NFSv4 type, even if the ACL is POSIX This is false i...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Pagepool enhancements

Today, the pagepool value in GPFS is set once typically at install. However if the workloads change, the setting needs to be done by customer intervention. One example, the pagepool needs to be readjusted when there is not enough memory left for t...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Improvement to Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) for shared files.

Request for an improved DLM mechanism when leveraging a scale out protocole node approach to better handle Locking broadcasting overhead for "shared to all" files and folder.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Simplified descOnly support on virtual quorum node

We should support using VM internal partition for descOnly NSD. Should not require the complexity of raw device mapping for this simple functionality, that also doesn't have any risk of data loss. I asked on the internal General Parallel File Syst...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration