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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Retrieving GPFS migration attributes

Retrieving GPFS migration attributes
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Support for multiple daemon networks

Currently GPFS has a major networking restriction which is (from the developer works site): When configuring a GPFS cluster you start by defining an IP address that can be used for all nodes to communicate. This is the IP address that you specify...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Enhance mmnfs config list output to state that NFS_KRB5 is active or not

We hit the Problem with mmnfs config change cmd issue (294665) that erased the NFS_KRB5 Section without indication of unhealty events or Info's in the mmnfs config list output. The idea here we request a addition in the output listing of mmnfs con...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Add support for wide links in protocol nodes/mmsmb

wide links is a parameter supported by SMB exports configuration. But currently it is not possible to specify it when adding a new smb share with the "mmsmb export add" command.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Enhance Installer Toolkit to support update keberized hdfs-scale cluster

We use scale 5.1.3.0 to update our scale hdfs-transparency cluster to update this Version from 5.1.2.2. During the ./spectrumscale upgrade precheck we see a error:Both namenodes are in stand by state, but the haaadmin cmd -getAllServiceState list ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

GUI option fo enable maintenance mode and do not send alert

During node maintenance, like code upgrade, OS upgrade, rebooting, client would like to have an option to put the node or cluster in maintenance mode. By setting this flag, the SNMP traps and SNMP emails would not be sent.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Add GPFS Fileset quota metrics/monitoring

Product: Spectrum Scale quota monitoring (specially for filesets) We use GPFS fileset quota. These fileset quota is only monitored internally by the GPFS GUI - if the GPFS GUI is installed. If the fileset quota exceeded, the system will give you n...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Disable the Spectrum Scale GUI service without disabling the REST API service in Spectrum Scale

Bank of America is a tier 1 segment client that adopts lots of IBM technologies. At this moment, they are adopting Openshift and making its way into the corporation. To feed this openshift environment, the containers need to access a shared filesy...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Allow a comment to be created/added/deleted to a node definition

Allow a comment to be attached to or removed from a node definition with the cluster.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered