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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    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...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    Increase Spectrum Scale SMB ACL Security Features (host allow, host deny)

    Problem: Client wants to increase the security of Samba by implementing host-based access control, in addition to access control by user and password. Solution: To implement the configuration in the Protocol Node SMB service, it would be necessary...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

    Generate dial homes for ESS storage enclosures

    Currently - ESS does not generate dial homes for hardware failures on storage enclosures.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    start services after gpfs (filesystems) is ready using systemd

    the current systemd units gpfs.service and <fs-mountpoint>.mount units can't be used to depend on (After/Required/.. systemd attributes) for other services. GPFS service is reporting itself as successfully started long before it actually com...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Delivered

    Implement upstream NooBaa Changes that support recent Amazon S3 server/client changes

    Recent client side changes to the aws cli utility as well as the Amazon boto3 python libraries have broken functionality of using the s3 gateway. From Amazon: In AWS CLI v2.23.0, we released changes to the S3 client that adopts new default integri...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

    Prometheus Exporter for zimon metrics

    For our compute and Storage systems we are running a monitoring setup based on Prometheus in combination with the Prometheus node exporter and Alert manager. To monitor spectrum Scale health we have some self written scripts collecting metrics. Bu...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

    Enhance gpl-build logic to check the right packages before the build-run

    This request is an important feature to close the gap to generate more stability in building gpl module on supported plattform. Today there are no check if the mmbuildgpl cmd are run that the installed packages are on the right version. Currently ...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Storage Scale - Need GPFS to support storing or exporting performance data into enterprise-level time series database like InfluxDB or Prometheus

    Problem: 1. The "pmcollector" service usually cannot work well when the GPFS cluster has over 100 nodes. As a result, the GUI will not display the performance data normally. And restarting the GUI will not help.2. ZIMON can not process large amoun...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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