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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Add compressed/ill-compressed options to mmfind

For a while we have maintained our own modified versions of mmfind and tr_findToPol.pl in /usr/lpp/mmfs/samples/ilm so we can identify the compressed and illcompressed files. It would be nice if this feature could be considered for inclusion in fu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add Storage Class Attribute to Data Pushed to S3

When pushing data to S3 via the Cloudgateway service it would be helpful to be able to specify the storage class. If you don't specify the storage class the data will be stored in S3 Standard. You can create a Lifecycle policy to push the data to ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

AFM-COS configuration option for proxy servers

At the moment you cannot configure AFM-COS to use an explizit http(s) proxy server to connect to an external S3 storage.Please also add proxy support to AFM-COS as it is already available for the TCT or call home features.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GUI should schedule daily policy runs

Customers often needs to run a set of policies on filesystems as daily maintenance. F.ex.: * Compress files * Migrate new files from primary to secondary pool * Premigrate data to tape/cloud/external pool, so that when a capacity-based trigger can...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

User unable to query fileset if permissions are root as owner and user as group

It is not unusual for user directories permissions to be set where root is the owner and the user is the group for operational reasons. However this leads to the situation where user have a degraded level of service as they cannot query their file...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add Broadcom SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in Scale ECE

One of OEM partners are planning to replace existing SAS 3108 HBA with SAS 3808/3908 HBAs. But we didn't find SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the support list of ECE 5.1.9. The partner hope IBM can support SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the next release. They can pr...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale support for routing over infiniband fabrics

The current implementation of Spectrum Scale Infiniband networking, does not allow for or support the allocation of GUID for a bonded interface when working with Mellanox's IP2GID tool which is required for configuring IP's for environment with mu...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Subnet specification for RDMA based clusters

When connecting two Scale Clusters via RDMA, the "subnets" parameter is limiting. We at Vcinity specialize in building equipment that is used for connecting systems over the wan using the RDMA protocol. Whether it is InfiniBand or ROCE, we provide...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

AFM for Object Storage Support

We have a large set of science data that we save on our IBM Spectrum Scale system and to be able to reduce the amount of spinning fast disk are we using IBM Spectrum Archive to extend our storage to tape. But now does our data science people ask u...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale AFM support for GCP

AFM file/object copy to GCP. Better: use AFM to TIER to GCP
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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