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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Windows 10 Native Client

    Need a Windows 10 native client committed for roadmap this year otherwise we will continue to loose opportunities.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

    IBM Spectrum Protect Client Encryption with IBM Spectrum Scale

    Spectrum Protect backup encryption using include.Encrypt for Spectrum Scale client is not working due to unrecognized format "Include Encrypt". Error:mmbackup does not recognize this include rule format: Include Encrypt. The tsbackup33 perl script...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Restripe options for balance and policy

    Restriping a file or a filesystem can be done for balance or to change location policy or both. However the -b option even when it gets to a relatively balanced state continues to reassign locations and move data when wadfg uses random placement e...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

    Enhance mmnfs config list output to state that NFS_KRB5 is active or not

    We hit the Problem with mmnfs config change cmd issue (294665) that erased the NFS_KRB5 Section without indication of unhealty events or Info's in the mmnfs config list output. The idea here we request a addition in the output listing of mmnfs con...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    More Groups in Spectrum Scale for AIX

    Currently under Spectrum Scale Server for AIX 4.2.x the products supports only 128 AIX Groups but in all other OS much more like Windows and Linux. We Need urgently the support of more Group id's
    about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Delivered

    SuSE Kernel Updates caused GPFS incompatibility.

    GM was forced to perform 2 GPFS upgrades across 3 large clusters due to SuSE security patches conflicting with GPFS. SuSE and IBM are requested to work together to keep this from happening going forward.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

    Loss of access with nsddevices script

    This is the follow up of case TS001236089 when customer copy the script "nsddevices" to the directory /var/mmfs/etc/ on ESS I/O nodes that prevent the code to discover disks for the recovery groups which result in loss access. This RFE is to addre...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    File System Level virtualization

    the customer created different gpfs file systems for different purpose, e.g. file system 1 for data archive of business department A, file system 2 for data archive of business department B, file system 3 for data archive of business department C....
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    enhance DELETE policies

    When writing a cleanup policy using as DELETE rule it can happen that a file cannot deleted for some reason (e.g. user has deleted it in the meantime or file is still in use). For a certain type of cleanup procedures this is tolerable and you do n...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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