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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Fully decompress files on read

Allow a flag to be set on a file, fileset or filesystem to have files fully decompress on read.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale CES SMB-NFS Separation

The today CES Protocoll implementation of the accestype file NFS and SMB are implementetd together. This seems to be a Problem if we want to separatly maintain the component. If we stop smb we see already issues in nfs. This is for us not really a...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

alert on vdisk usage threshold

On ESS, we need an mmhealth alert for full (and nearly full) vdisks/NSDS There is currently warnings (default 80% full) and errors (default 90% full) for both filesystem and pools. This is good. The problem occurs when a customer at a later time e...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

REST API should support managing fileset access control for remote mounts

Customer wants to change which filesets their compute cluster has access to, based on which group of users are using it. This is to protect groups of users to see each others files, even for root. They will implement filesystem encryption to prote...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

more control over hiding snapshot dirs / extend mmsnapdir

There seems to be no way to get rid of the .snapshots subdir in the root of indendepent snapshots. This is a problem when mirroring data using rsync. Because we do not want to rsync snapshots we need to exclude them. But for correct mirroring we a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Enhancement request to Spectrum Scale event alerting mechanism to allow event correlation

Spectrum Scale has long provided mechanisms to alert about events. In the past, it was common to use callbacks to do that. Today, Scale provides webhooks that can be received by consumers. Also, mmhealth today provides a good source of info about ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Increase independent inode filesets from 1000 to 32k

We have a customer that requires their projects separated via independent inode filesets. They are against the 1000 fileset limit and need it to be increased to a more realistic number.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Bandwidth limitations / Traffic shaping / QOS for data communication

Sometimes different clients in a Spectrum Scale cluster have different IO performance requirements, but the options to resolve this by choosing adequate HW are somewhat limited. Consider clients using InfiniBand (RDMA), which will most likely use ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale GUI - Increase the size of the login banner field

Many sites are required to present a legal warning on systems when a connection is initiated. Currently the Spectrum Scale login banner field is restricted to ~44 characters which is not sufficiently large enough to hold our required legal warning...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

E-mail-based callhome in Spectrum Scale

the customer deployed different IBM storages. in A9000 like storage, it provides the email-based callhome. When the call home detects some potential issues, it will collect some data, send the data to one email address from IBM and the proper supp...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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