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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Spectrum Scale VMWare ESX V7 Support

Hallo,we plan to migrate our SAS-Grid Cluster to a VMWare based Plattform. These Platform is installed with ESX Version 7.0 U2. But currently scale support only V6.x.This gap stop our Migrationsplans currently. With the introduction ov Version 7 E...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow Spectrum Scale Management API to handle POSIX ACLs

The Spectrum Scale Management API currently can not manage POSIX ACLs, only NFSv4 ACLs. We'd like to be able to manage both kinds of ACLs in our system.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Scale GUI - Need to improve pmcollector service with large amount of performance data

Problem: "pmcollector" service failed to start while there was large amount of performance data (about 10GB for 6 months). Performance data can not be shown on the GUI. And restarting the GUI did not help. ZIMON can not process large amount of per...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add Ansible for SLES at Scale Toolkit packaging

As known, Ansible is required for Scale Toolkit. The installation of Ansible is done through pip3 install and it connects to a repository to install Ansible. Some clients, special in financial sector, have restrictions to make their servers with e...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Distribution via Package Repository

Today Spectrum Scale ships self extracting images. These are large, usually only 25% of the image content is used, and a special install procedure is needed.These images are quickly superseded by new ptf versions, sometimes certain versions are wi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Auto-cleanup /tmp/mmfs

Over time /tmp/mmfs fills up will diagnostic data from gpfs.snap. Provide a facility to cleanup those files automatically based on age.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

AFM immutable file support

Need to be able to make files immutable in a home fileset for AFM in order to protect data from ransomware, data will be created at the cache site (single-writer) and transferred to the home site using AFM, data are to be retained at the home site...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Support https natively on S3 objects in protocol nodes

This RFE is opened in behalf of General Motors. Vendors are required to support secure http i.e https for Object Store as one of the protocols provided in Spectrum Scale protocol nodes. Currently the product does not support https.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Provide auth and security status of connections via standard mm commands

It would useful to have the auth and security status of connections/mounts via standard supported mm commands (mmdiag|mmlsmount).
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

mmdf needs an option to not reach out to all remote clients

On our very large environment, mmdf will take hours to run. This is apparently because the ESS cluster will reach out to our thousands of remote clients to verify accuracy of its statistics. Worse the entire system slows down while this is occurri...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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