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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

CES S3 - S3 Bucket Lifecycle

One common use of S3 lifecycle policies is to automatically delete objects after a specified period. For instance, businesses can set up a policy to delete temporary files or logs older than 90 days, ensuring that unnecessary data does not clutter...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

mmbackup dry-run mode

The mmbackup command is intended for highly-scalable backups of IBM Spectrum Scale (SS) filesystems to one or more IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) servers using the SS policy engine to identify files and the SP client software to send them to SP. The co...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

Increase the maximum number of independent filesets per filesystem

Currently we are hovering under 1000 independent file sets within the user file system. Even taking into account file sets that are removed when users leave site it is very possible that we will hit the limit within a year.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

gpfs.snap option to add case number and upload to IBM

It would be nice to have an option in gpfs.snap that would take a case number and then upload the snap output once it has been created. Would remove some manual steps... think of how much collective time would be saved with this feature!! -Bryan
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

Give sysadmin insight into the inner workings of the NSD server machinery, in particular the queue dynamics

Enhance mmdiag to provide visibility into NSD queues. Right now, the only way to look at the threads and queues on an NSD server is "mmfsadm dump NSD" - and this command will either hang or result in a server crash. This information is critical to...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

HPO to support InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to have HPO support for deployment on InfiniBand infrastructure.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

HPO to support AFM managed data along with data transfer to AWS S3

In order to provide high-performance hybrid-cloud object storage for Analytics & AI, within HPO, it is required to process S3 object data via AFM to on-prem AND on AWS S3. To place/move objects intelligently on/to AWS S3, HPO AFM needs to supp...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

CNSA on OpenShift on bare-metal along with InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to support CNSA on bare-metal OpenShift with InfiniBand by June 2023. Workaround of CNSA on VMware with InfiniBand is not supported, because OpenShift does not supp...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

CES Protocol Node support for IPv6

Ability support IPv6 on the Protocol nodes.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

RAS Enhancements for Spectrum Scale mmchnsd

In an today 7/24 work area and the use of spectrum scale as a general data plane there are no timeframe to unmount or stop a hole Spectrum scale cluster. If a customer has the requirement to change the nsd-server -nodes because of growing or chang...
over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

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