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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    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 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

    GPFS client support larger memory address space

    Currently GPFS client can use upto 1TB address space, but now GPU servers already configured with 2TB memory, and 3T, 4T memory in future. the address space below 1TB might be used by vfio, for nic, gpu passthrough, so GPFS client has very little ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    All GPFS services need to support FIPS.

    Because of DISA-STIG requirements, all systems we use must enable FIPS. mmcallhome (and maybe other components of GPFS) use MD5 summing, which will not work on a FIPS enabled system. This needs to be fixed.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    File Access Logging support for read only remote mounts

    File Access Logging in Spectrum Scale 5.1 eliminates the need for kafka, but it only works if the filesystem is mounted read/write. So a remote cluster with a RO mount is not supported by FAL.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    ECE - Support for SEDs

    Support the use of SEDs for storage with ECE, either with locally managed keys, centrally managed keys, or ideally, both
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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