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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

implement ability to remote mount a fileset instead of a full filesystem
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

CES support on SLES 12 SP3 Little Endian

Recompile the CES packages to support SLES 12 SP3 on Power 8 and newer processors. There is already support in place for RHEL, but some customers are using SLES as their primary OS primarily due to SAP Hana installations and there is no support fo...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow remote mount for fileset in different paths on the remote cluster to mou

With the new functionality of remote mount controlled by fileset, it gives the opportunity to grant or deny access to different filesets within the same file system. Although the functionality is deployed on the owning cluster, at the remote clust...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Report Spectrum Scale Event if FD hard Limit of Ganesha server is above the threshold.

Ganesha NFS server has a limit of max. open files, which is calculated by 80% of the maxFilesToCache parameter. If Ganesha Server is reaching this limit, Ganesha NFS server will stop working and all NFS clients will loose access to data. In curren...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Provide a changelog for Scale releases

Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Allow group owners to also query filesets

We have user filesets (independent) that are owned by root but the group is actually the user. Unfortunately Spectrum Scale seems not to take group ownership into account and only the owner can query the fileset (mmlsfileset) which seems overly re...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support 256 or more cluster watches per cluster.

Only 25 cluster watches are supported per cluster, but we need 256 at least.
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CNSA / Rest API - Restrict GUI User access to a single Filesystem

Today, each CNSA Instance requires two GUI Users with the Access Roles of ContainerOperator and CsiAdmin. These GUI Roles have permissions to connect and manage all existing Filesystems on the Remote Scale Cluster. Fthat means: an Openshift Admin ...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance mmperfmon sensors to generate DF statistics also for .snapshots in Filesystem and filset structure

In the area of Cybercrime we are in preparation of using saveguarded snapshots in our scale based Storage Protect environment. Because of the usage of immutable snapshots we had no sensor that generate space utilisation statistics of snapshots in ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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