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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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REST API for mms3 - enhancement: create S3 user

Currently a REST API call to create a new S3 user account is missing, This is needed for several client applications. The AWS REST API and client provides this function which is currently used by a client application... workaround to create user a...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Add offical Support for s3A semantics in CES-S3 Protocol

Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support more than 15 remote clusters with fileset access control

Customer needs strict separation of filesets accessible on different compute clusters, and want to utilize RFAC to control what view each of the compute clusters has access to in the file system. Customer was then surprised when they hit the limit...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Enable AWS STS support

Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

IO Performance Reporting/Tracking of Specific Applications / HPC Jobs

Add the ability to provide application / job specific performance monitoring and reporting (mmperfmon and GUI). Many HPC customers would like the ability to trace IOs from the filesystem perspective with the granularity of the application/job. Thi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Allow custom nsswitch configuration (sssd, LDAP or others) in Spectrum Scale

All clients using Windows system connecting to Scale cluster export services with Kerberos through Samba. Allow user-defined nsswitch configuration for spectrum scale
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

'mmdf Device -h' for Human Readable Output

I'm used to do 'df -h' on linux operating systems to get human readable output. With 'mmdf' I have to use 'mmdf Device --block-size=auto' for human readable output, which is a bit unhandy for me. My suggestion is, to invent 'mmdf device -h' for hu...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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