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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Notification'

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Under review

Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Lifecycle'

One common use of S3 lifecycle policies is to automatically delete objects after a specified period. For instance, businesses can set up a policy to delete temporary files or logs older than 90 days, ensuring that unnecessary data does not clutter...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

LDAP improvements RELATED TO TS018381561

This will help to resolve case TS018381561
13 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Command to force Dynamic Pagepool to shrink to minimum size

When utilizing the dynamic pagepool during IO operations, the pagepool automatically expands until possibly reaching its maximum allocated size. It then remains at that level, even after the IO operations have completed, until additional memory (m...
28 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Node Designation/Role Listed in mmlscluster

Any node designation that is possible with the mmchnode command should be listed in the output of mmlscluster for that specific node. This will provide a quality of life improvement when figuring out exactly which node is serving which purpose. Fo...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable mmbackup to run into remote mounted file systems.

Many Customers have preference using specific and dedicated Networks to perform backups with IBM Spectrum Protect with Spectrum Scale. Today this is not possible using mmbackup because the tool can only be used on the local cluster. This request h...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Storage Scale performance is extremely sensitive to network and backend latency, there must be a mechanism to monitor those critical KPI

It would help both system administrator and IBM Support to be able to quickly identify the key issue and be able to isolate the bottleneck to address critical performance issues.
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

Scale S3/Nooba tiering to tape

With the new capability S£/Nooba replacing S3/Swift we would use the Scale ILM capability to move buckets/filesets from disk to tape thanks to Storage Archive integration
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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