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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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add support for "defaultHelperNodes" in AFM

mmafmctl always runs "mmapplypolicy" over all nodes which mount filesystem regardless of definitions of "defaultHelperNodes"As for now, the Helper nodes in AFM code are hardcoded as "mount" (see mmafmctl), while existing configuration parameter "d...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Support for multiple AD services on one GPFS/Scale cluster

Allowing support for more than one Active Directory service per GPFS cluster would be extremely helpful in those situations where we are serving customers who are trying to create a shared storage repository for multiple sub-groups (departments, r...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

[BDA]support data locality in a shared-storage environment

This RFE is requesting that GPFS be modified to support data locality in a shared storage environment by modifying the FPO featureset to support multiple NSD servers per NSD. This is requisite for leveraging data locality in a scale-out environmen...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Support ILMT for Per TB licensing for 5.1 (ESS Support still needed)

Scale should support the use of ILMT reporting for Capacity licensing. ILMT itself can count PVUs, but it also has the ability to consume usage reports from non-PVU licensed products if they produce information in the correct format, and then prov...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Ability to create dependent filesets within an AFM cache fileset

Customer's automated software driven workflows require reproducible implementations across multi-site installations for ease of management, reduced maintenance costs, reproducible workflows and performance requirements. At present it is not possib...
about 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Feature Request: allow two LDAP Active Directory domain searches

Referencing PMR 15924,999,866 from our storage support vendor, the version 4.1.1.5 patch is working successfully for us on the Windows client when looking up UID on 1 active directory domain. This ticket is to request a feature to expand the LDAP ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Hadoop API/ Connector and it's Extended Attributes support for GPFS managing shared storage & support for Open Source Disti's

Support for the GPFS Hadoop API and it's extended attivutes to be included/supported in a normal GPFS Shared disk environment without the need for a bunch of servers with local disks. and without requiring a special GPFS-FPO code load. This includ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Make GPFS more atomic

At present you cannot delete, create snapshots or filesets if a migration is occurring.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Delivered

Prevent ESS reading /var/mmfs/etc/nsddevices file

Spectrum Scale uses a file called /var/mmfs/etc/nsddevices to determine the path names for disk devices to be used by Scale. This file is not supposed to exist on an ESS system. However, if present, it will be read. If present, it breaks the ESSs'...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Multiple AD servers for Scale CES

Currently, Spectrum Scale CES only supports the addition of a single AD server for SMB authentication. We have encountered a couple of events where a communication issue with that DC results in auth services on the CES node(s) going offline, requi...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Delivered

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