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    Extend node replication to allow it to also replicate decommissioned state of nodes

    In a replication environment (data and metadata is replicated from source to target server) it is currently not possible to "decomm node" for nodes that are replicated. One has to first disable replication for nodes before being able to decommissi...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    use sort from rust-coreutils to speedup mmbackup/mmapplypolicy

    For large filesystems mmbackup and mmapplypolicy spend long times with sorting data. This idea is about improving those times considerably. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils is a re-implementation of the GNU coreutils. The sort command is much q...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly.

    Alibaba Cloud EBS now supports NVMe Persistent Reservation (PR). Please add support accordingly. ==========================nvme resv-register /dev/nvme1n1 --crkey=0x1 --nrkey=0x12345678 --rrega=0NVME Reservation success ==========================n...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    CES Support for L3 BGP Network

    Currently CES only supports Layer 2 networks where there is a specific subnet such as 192.168.20.0/24 where the virtual IP (VIP) addresses for CES would get assigned to an interface such as eth0 on a node. This does NOT work with Layer 3 networks ...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    CLONE_DATABASE_MEMORY (Db2) should be configurable PER TARGET

    If you have a machine with multiple FCM clones of DB2 databases, they may have very different sizes and sizing requirements, in particular when the original (source) system has way more memory than the destination (clone target) system. Option CLO...
    4 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    Updates to tsapplypolicy to stop the after directory and inode scans

    The tsapplypolicy tool is very efficient at safely handling the scans of directories and inodes across many nodes. However it is using very slow tools for sorting and merging this data. As a result we cannot run the mmapplypolicy operation on very...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Storage Protect server encryption for sequential file storage pools

    The Storage Protect server allows to use sequential file as a storage pool. The Storage Protect server does not allow to enable Storage Protect server internal encryption for sequential file. For security reasons, user data stored on Storage Prote...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Storage Protect server compression for sequential file storage pools

    The Storage Protect server allows to use sequential file as a storage pool. The Storage Protect server does not allow to enable Storage Protect server internal compression for sequential file. To safe disk space utilized by a Storage Protect serve...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    improve mmxcp logging and monitoring

    mmxcp logs all output to /var/..../ras/mmxcp.log That is 1. pretty unreadable and not very informative. If multiple instances of the mmxcp are running all logging is done to the same log file. It would be good to have one log file per mmxcp instan...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    possibility to add clients by nodegroup to copy storage subrule

    Currently you can only add single clients to a copy storage subrule . It would be comfortable to also have the possibility to add clients by nodegroup as an additional choice - like you can do with "def retrule".
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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