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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Spectrum Scale Function Enhancement - MD Anderson - integration between Spectrum Protect backup (GPFS) and Spectrum Protect archive (LTFS)

MD Anderson Cancer Center has requested that IBM provide integration between Spectrum Protect backup (GPFS) and Spectrum Protect archive (LTFS) to integrate a “BACKUP REQUIRED BEFORE MIGRATION” functionality in order to eliminate the possibility o...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

mmnetverify should be able to specify node in multi-cluster

mmnetverify currently is only able to check the connection between nodes in a single cluster. When diagnosing issues between nodes in multi-cluster this means it is not possible to use mmnetverify to assist. An additional flag should be added to m...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Need a Spectrum Scale filesystem Maintenance mode (JUMP Trading LLC)

Currently, Spectrum Scale does not have a maintenance mode that can disable operations at the cluster or file system level. This is especially true for large multi cluster configurations that span multiple sites, where maintenance on the storage c...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Windows 10 Native Client

Need a Windows 10 native client committed for roadmap this year otherwise we will continue to loose opportunities.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Expose NFS-Ganesha pseudo path option in GPFS GUI

Current GPFS GUI do not offer NFS-Ganesha pseudo path option when the NFS export is created. The customer do not like to export and mount long directory path. This is very true when we configure unified object and file access - the directory path ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

CES RFE for Fruit VFS module support

The current version Samba in Protocol Node does not have support for the Fruit VFS module. This precludes some functionality in OS X and other OS's that Media content environments depend on. Specifically the following VFS modules that could be lev...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

GPFS SMB - dfree command

We are deploying GPFS into production enviroment, but GPFS has problem with SMB service. SMB service (smbd) reports double size share than is real. This is caused by filesystem replication on two storwize V5010.The solution of this problem is to u...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Integration with the systemd mount facility (JUMP Trading LLC)

Spectrum Scale does not currently integrate with the systemd mounts facility, which means that systemd has no way of determining if Spectrum Scale file systems are properly mounted on a node. Please see the following discussion on the Fedora syste...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Integration of Spectrum Scale CCR services with systemd (JUMP Trading LLC)

systemd is the facility for managing and integrating long running software services. Spectrum Scale needs to be integrated with systemd so that long running, required CCR services are managed by systemd units and not internal Spectrum Scale script...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Setting the Spectrum Scale license designation in the mmaddnode command (JUMP)

We currently have a hack in our system automation facilities for a node to set the Spectrum Scale License Designation. This can be problematic when multiple nodes attempt to change their License Designation at the same time. We would prefer GPFS t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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