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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Enable support for SLES as NFS Client on IBM Power Platform

Many SAP Customers in Europe are running SLES for their HANA DB Workload on IBM Power Systems. Due to the current search for software that offers the customer HA cluster NFS (cNFS) server functionality, Spectrum Scale is an ideal solution. But to...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

MFA Support for Spectrum Scale CLI

We had the request to enhance the security modell in spectrum scale for mm cli cmd to support multi factor authentication (MFA). The implementation should support the current well accepted standard of RFC 6238.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Enable support for signing kernel modules for the GPFS portability layer

We need a way to have GPFS client code to support signing the GPFS portability layer kernel modules so it is possible to run with secureboot enabled. In the FAQ it is listed to be disabled or handled manualy. We would request that the Spectrum Sca...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

enhance DELETE policies

When writing a cleanup policy using as DELETE rule it can happen that a file cannot deleted for some reason (e.g. user has deleted it in the meantime or file is still in use). For a certain type of cleanup procedures this is tolerable and you do n...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

mmhealth node show should explicitly show the cluster status, too

Currently mmhealth node show can report the node as healthy while there are problems elsewhere in the cluster, e.g. in the filesystem component:# mmhealth node show Node name: somenode.somedomain Node status: HEALTHY Status Change: 13 days ag...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Add support for wide links in protocol nodes/mmsmb

wide links is a parameter supported by SMB exports configuration. But currently it is not possible to specify it when adding a new smb share with the "mmsmb export add" command.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

support mmapplypolicy to scan file in remote cluster

we use mmapplypolicy to scan file status (mostly metadata like file path, size, mtime, afm cache state, ...) in a specific directory or fileset. But in remote cluster mmapplypolicy is not allowed to do it. we need support for scan file in remote c...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Option Needed to Disable Implicit WRITE_ACL Permission for Owner on NFSv4 ACLs

According to https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_5.1.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r10.doc/bl1adm_admglnv4.htm Spectrum Scale grants implicit WRITE_ACL permission to the owner of files and directories in conflict with the NFSv4 specifi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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