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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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HA GUI synchronization for notification events

Changes to notification events are currently not synchronized to secondary GUI node in an HA GUI configuration. This lead to the problem, that I have to perform the "Mark as read" function for several GUI events at each GUI node separately, to get...
7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support both Ubuntu and Redhat upgrades through open source ansible scale roles with same repository

Support both Local existing APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles, also support Redhat /Sles Yum repository to support storage scale deployment..
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent

CHTASK to change task period at Scale GUI is not persistent. In order to improve their monitoring integration with Grafana, client needs to shorten the frequency of some GUI tasks . I used the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/chtask <task> --period <...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GUI change of units how quota is set up

because we need this feature for better daily operation of capacities...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

LDAP improvements RELATED TO TS018381561

This will help to resolve case TS018381561
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES S3 - automatically create new fileset for each new S3 bucket

With this feature we can use the filesetquota function, snapshot-funktion to maintain the usage and backup of the underlying fs.
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhance Install-Toolkit to add Firewall configuration support for rhel9

Our current rhel9 Systems that are provisioned has firewalld system service actice bei default. This generate a requirement to define the nessacary firewall roules for scale.These are our current cmd's that we used: firewall-cmd --add-port=10080/t...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES SMB - disable SMB share (but keep in config)

There is no way to temporary disable and SMB or NFS exports. The only way is to delete the export. (At least for SMB exports) It would be more convenient and less likely that you make an error if you could disable it instead of delete it. It would...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Network resiliency enhancement - need mechanism for prioritizing control traffic over data traffic via QOS/PFC when RDMA is not enabled.

In a heavy workload situations, some clients are removed from the cluster as peer nodes are not able to communicate as heart-beat/control traffic stuck behind data traffic. Also explore, a dedicated VLAN(s) option for Control and Data traffic.
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale ECE - optimize the efficiency of swapd processing, and ensure consistency in file access

Current Issue: A directory A is created on GPFS Client 1. Then on Client 2, directory A is accessed and a subdirectory B is created inside it. If directory A is subsequently deleted and recreated on GPFS Client 1, attempting to create subdirectory...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration