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GPFS 5.0 CES NFS show NFS Clients which actually mount the exported filesystem (like Linux showmount)

We use Spectrum Scale Protocols 5 with NFS Ganesha.When exporting a filesystem to several NFS Clients (e. g. * or other), we could not see which NFS Client actually mount the exported filesystem.In Kernel based NFS you can use the command "showmou...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

SVC nodes with more than 4 FC ports

Instead of having the two 10 GB Ethernet ports in the SVC (2145-CG8) we need another 4 port FC adapter. As an alternative a new SVC engine should have at least 8 FC ports.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Add logrotation for cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy

Please add log rotation for the cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy They can get quite large and fill up the available disk space.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

CES Protocol Node support for IPv6

Ability support IPv6 on the Protocol nodes.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

16GB FC HBA

V7000 and SVC need to be upgraded to 16 Gbps Fibre Channel infrastructure
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

View how much capacity is being used and compression rates

I would like to know the over all amount of capacity that a host is consuming at the backend from Storage Insights. Today with the compresstimator being built into SVC I would to see this functionality also added to to SI Pro where I can monitor t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

Text utilities in SVC / V7000 commandline

For several years, we have missed already the GNU text utilities on the SVC commandline. We have asked again and again but they never came into the SVC/V7000 code stream. We consider these utilities to present no security or OS load issue. On a HM...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Allow Spectrum Scale Adds and Deletes via List with individual node errors

mmaddnode/mmdelnode current behavior when submitting a "NodeFile" is if one node is in the cluster or fails to add/delete for any reason then the whole list fails. This behavior seems to be the case with most of the mm commands that accept -N <...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

API to update device passwords for Spectrum Virt and other devices

Please add an endpoint to the API to update device passwords for Spectrum Virtualize (and perhaps other devices.) The updateHMC endpoint only works for DS8000. Our environment includes FS9k's in multiple availability zones across multiple regions....
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

RAS Enhancements for Spectrum Scale mmchnsd

In an today 7/24 work area and the use of spectrum scale as a general data plane there are no timeframe to unmount or stop a hole Spectrum scale cluster. If a customer has the requirement to change the nsd-server -nodes because of growing or chang...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

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