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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Support online trim / discard of NSD freed/released blocks to optimise NVME backend performances

    We are observing important degradation of GPFS read/write performances that appears to be related to the lack of online trim/discard actions for freed/released blocks on the NSDs. Performances go back to normal once mmreclaimspace is executed and ...
    16 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Detailed information about a problematic inode

    “When we encounter an issue caused by or impacting a specific file which leads to deadlock conditions in the file locking functionality that scale supports the Scale development is able to provide us with an inode value after analysis of gpfs.snap...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enable remote Clusters to connect at all local interfaces

    For security or performance reasons the network is divided into different zones, either to isolate different tenants or to separate different types of network traffic. To enable multitenancy, a Storage Scale Cluster should be able to serve multipl...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    killing running mmbackup processes on all participating nsd server

    In some circumstances (maintenance window / problem investigation) it is important for us to kill all mmbackup sessions on a scale cluster. We, as the storage and backup admingroup in our company struggeling currently in missing a feature that mmb...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

    Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Protocols - S3 Glacier for Storage Protect managed tape libraries

    It seems the feature has been implemented in NooBaa, but Storage Scale still does not officially support the S3 Glacier feature. Without S3 Glacier support, S3 users have no idea that their data has been migrated. This creates challenges for syste...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Future consideration

    Requirement for LDAPS (secure LDAP) support

    Since 2020 Microsoft has been actively pushing for adoption of LDAPS (LDAP over SSL/TLS) for security hardening of Active Directory Cloud and on-premise environments. Therefore, products to maintain supported access will need to support LDAPS. Cus...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

    Add samlogon cache expiry and add support for manage_gids=yes and to re-authenticate AD users in NFS with sec=sys

    The MANAGE_GIDS_EXPIRATION parameter is a configuration option within the NFS Ganesha core configuration file that controls the cache validity duration for group membership information (GID) lookups. The netsamlogon_cache.tdb file in Samba stores ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Include IBM Spectrum Scale Bridge for Grafana in the Storage Scale DAE release

    The Grafana bridge feature is very useful in determining overall Filesystem usage and performance metrics. Currently the incorporated Storage Scale GUI does not provide the same level of client filesystem utilization, this is where the Bridge for ...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Under review

    change the default data collection behavior of gpfs.snap utility

    the default behavior of gpfs.snap is set to collect afm recovery data to include in the snap archive uploaded to IBM, Please create a switch in the gpfs. snap utililty to give the ability to exclude this afm data as this is financial data that may...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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