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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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GPFS 5.0 CES NFS show NFS Clients which actually mount the exported filesystem (like Linux showmount)

We use Spectrum Scale Protocols 5 with NFS Ganesha.When exporting a filesystem to several NFS Clients (e. g. * or other), we could not see which NFS Client actually mount the exported filesystem.In Kernel based NFS you can use the command "showmou...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Increment RPM Release Number for ifix/efix RPM Releases

Increment RPM release number for ifix/efix RPM releases so they're differentiated by "rpm" and "yum", and thus not require the use of "yum reinstall" or "rpm --force -U" to install. Properly incremented release numbers will allow for a normal upgr...
about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

support nsd network checksums in non gnr environment

Support nsd network checksums in environments without ESS/GNR (see the settings mentioned in this thread https://www.mail-archive.com/gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org/msg02705.html).
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

multi network connections support (multirail)

Michael Daubman and Lisa visited CMA(China Meteorological Administration). in the meeting, CMA raised this requirement: they hope GPFS to provide the network connection fault tolerance. Linux bond doesn't help CMA because their clusters have two s...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

AFM NFSv4 Support

We are seeing more and more mandates from customers in fed and commercial that require support for NFSv4 in order for products to be authorized onto the enclave. This include NIST mandates for federal customers and commercial compliance regulation...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Disable the Spectrum Scale GUI service without disabling the REST API service in Spectrum Scale

Bank of America is a tier 1 segment client that adopts lots of IBM technologies. At this moment, they are adopting Openshift and making its way into the corporation. To feed this openshift environment, the containers need to access a shared filesy...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Enable mmapplypolicy function via REST-API

Client has one self-service REST-API based application developed for providing SMB/NFS shares to their clients. They have different storage pools, and their clients can define which tier they want the data to be stored, and also select over time t...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Enhance security for remote Spectrum Scale mounts

When a Spectrum Scale filesystem is mounted to a client (or a remote cluster), the entire filesystem is available. This is a potential security concern.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Allow Spectrum Scale Adds and Deletes via List with individual node errors

mmaddnode/mmdelnode current behavior when submitting a "NodeFile" is if one node is in the cluster or fails to add/delete for any reason then the whole list fails. This behavior seems to be the case with most of the mm commands that accept -N <...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

In Spectrum Scale with Spectrum Archive ES solution, customer want to know hwo many data are in disk and tapes

Customer attaches few x86 nodes into ESS cluster and enable Spectrum Archive EE in those x86 nodes to archive cold data from ESS tapes. Customer create few fileset to provide data service for their end uses in different department. The requirement...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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