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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Add Broadcom SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in Scale ECE

One of OEM partners are planning to replace existing SAS 3108 HBA with SAS 3808/3908 HBAs. But we didn't find SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the support list of ECE 5.1.9. The partner hope IBM can support SAS 3808/3908 HBAs in the next release. They can pr...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

New Fileset Attribute to Ignore Special Owning Group and Everyone Permissions

To allow applications outside our control to function properly when storing data in Spectrum Scale file and directory owners must be granted implicit control and have the ability to run chmod against files and directories they own. Depending on th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Migrate object storage to tape

For the upcoming object interface in Spectrum Scale it should be possible to migrate object data to tape.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

NFS V4.2 Support

We need support for NFS V4.2 On the one hand, NFS V4.0 face major issues, and on the other hand in our use case we could strongly benefit from the new 4.2 features like "server-side-copy" and "sparse files"
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale (GPFS)

Our HPC infrastructure is to have a central Spectrum Scale storage solution. all our HPC systems do a native GPFS remote cluster mount.Due to changes in the HPC market we are looking (and also other sides we think) especially at ARM based compute ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Scale Management API Version 2 should support SMB exportacls

The Spectrum Scale management API Version 2 includes commands for managing SMB exports, like Create/Modify/Delete an SMB share.These command represent the 'mmsmb export' cli commands. The API Version 2 must provide an equivalent for the 'mmsmb exp...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Report and Update Quota's better

Spectrum Scale has commands of mmlsquota, mmedquota, mmrepquota and mmsetquota to update and control quotas. It would be helpful to be able to copy quotas between users, filesets and groups in a flexable fasion, both within the same filesystem (wh...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale GUI & API should support nested groups with LDAP/IPA authentication

Using nested groups (objectclass=nestedGroup) is a common feature of modern directories (e.g. Active Directory, FreeIPA/RedHat Identity Manager, and IBM Tivoli Directory Server ) and make it much easier to manage group memberships by adding a grou...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Add Support for Hardware Load Balancers like the F5

We are a large bank and a large enterprise customer. Not all Open-Source software is supported. HA-Proxy is one of those not supported. But we still need to Load balance the GPFS GUI. This is a requirement when hosting Scale in OCP. We need to pla...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

GPFS AFM gateways must handle migrated/offline files in asynchronous fashion

As per the case above, we have experienced many issues in the gateway (AFM) performance, stability and global usability as a result of long waiters arising from the use of offline files in the backend of the GPFS cache and home relationship. These...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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