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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration
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Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot effeciency improvements

The cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot requirements made economic sense in the past, before mmvdisk began enforcing a minimum of 4 vdisks per Data Adapter (DA) on SSD-based Recovery Groups (RGs). Currently, in a single ESS Building Block, depending ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

Support tiered S3 instant retrieval buckets as home filesystem with AFM to reduce AWS bill by 68%

Today scale supports S3 standard and S3 Glacier as AFM home filesystems. However to optimize expense we need to support tiered S3 buckets for best value. With more customer relying on cloud and amazon S3, we want to provide better value for money ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Protocols - S3 Object Lock

We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

IAM user policies

In AWS S3, it is common practice to grant bucket access via IAM user policies. This is often much simpler and more straightforward than using bucket policies. The necessary structures have already been added to the noobaa source project. https://g...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Enable custom certificates for Storage Scale CNSA GUI on OpenShift

We have to secure all Web GUIs with custom certificates from our In House CA. In detail we need the ibm-spectrum-scale-gui route from the ibm-spectrum-scale namespace to be secured by a custom certificate.
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Integrate S3 commands into the REST API

We have an automatic workflow which provisiones storage with the help of the REST API (and not mm* commands)Since we want to automate the S3 part, we need s3 commands in the REST API. So the request is to provide S3 administration via REST API, id...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

mmdsh rest api command

With the transition from ssh-based commanding to the Rest API, the functionality of mmdsh needs to be maintained. Currently, this command's functionality will no longer be supported once a cluster is migrated off of ssh-based communications. Many ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review