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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Notification'

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Lifecycle'

One common use of S3 lifecycle policies is to automatically delete objects after a specified period. For instance, businesses can set up a policy to delete temporary files or logs older than 90 days, ensuring that unnecessary data does not clutter...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Scale CNSA - add more configuration options to cluster CRD

During our implementation phase of Spectrum Scale CNSA on OpenShift clusters we identify that current options in the cluster CRD are not sufficient for various use-cases. So it will be great to configure at least number of replicas and resources f...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable mmbackup to run into remote mounted file systems.

Many Customers have preference using specific and dedicated Networks to perform backups with IBM Spectrum Protect with Spectrum Scale. Today this is not possible using mmbackup because the tool can only be used on the local cluster. This request h...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

NFS Ganesha should Support GPFS extended Attributes

Storage Scale (GPFS) does support extended attributes for the users like: > getfattr -d stephan.txt > md5sum stephan.txt 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt > setfattr -n user.md5 -v 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt &...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Add reasoning to hidden mmhealth events

When applying gpfs updates it sometime happens that new TIPS events appear. Some of these tips recomment to carefully check the situation and maybe hide the event. It would be really helpful if you could add a user specifiend comment th the hide c...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Scale S3/Nooba tiering to tape

With the new capability S£/Nooba replacing S3/Swift we would use the Scale ILM capability to move buckets/filesets from disk to tape thanks to Storage Archive integration
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Implement filesystemPath in s3 API

We would like to see the flag (--filesystemPath) from the mms3 command on the protocol nodes implemented in the actual API. We have teams that utilize the s3 api that we would like to be able to have them specify the path themselves instead of hav...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration