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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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

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...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Allowing to mapping CES address to fixed interface

The current design is alis CES ip to one of interface or the interface has the fixed ip in the same subnet. This is not flexibile and will wast of fixed ip. Customer hope to support static CES IP mapping that can assign CES IP to dedicated etherne...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Decrease memory requirement in CES.

The Scale FAQ list CES node need 128GB memory. It's huge to most of SMB scenarios. Most of Customer often have 50/100/200 SMB/NFS connections per CES ndoe pair. Customer hope to support 16G/32G/64G/128G memory models in CES node. If it's no, custo...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

GPFS Windows support for zimon interfaces

Please provide capability for performance monitoring of GPFS Windows filesystems. Currently, GPFS Windows doesn't support zimon interfaces
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support openSUSE as a GPFS client

SLES is an officially supported Linux distribution for installing GPFS/Scale (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=gpfs-software-requirements). openSUSE is binary compatible with SLES as of version 15.3 (see https://www.suse.com/c...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Improve support for remote CES Protocol Clusters sharing only NFS exports, to support access to the same remote filesystem concurrently

The customer currently has more than. 32000 nfs exports across 5000 paths, which takes a significant amount of time to perform an export definition refresh (any time a new export is added) this generally in excess of 5 minutes for the export defin...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

mmdsh quiet mode

mmdsh currently prints ssh banner messages in the output which is overlapping with the actual cmd output, it will be nice if mmdsh internally uses a quiet mode equalent to ssh -q to ignore the banner messages in the mmdsh cmd output.
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

expose pagepool statistics

There seems to be no supported way, and in fact no way at all that I can find, to determine how effective the pagepool cache is. The official ways to determine an optimum pagepool size are 1) "try it and find out", and 2) "pay one of our consultan...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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