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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Seamlessy convert subtree into (independent) fileset

add a command to convert a subtree to an independent fileset seamlessly (without interrupting access for users) and - as a bonus - vice-versa
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

GNR needs to be supported outside ESS

Since Spectrum Scale is a Software Defined Storage product, we would need to support GNR outside of Elastic Storage Server.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Allow remote mount for fileset in different paths on the remote cluster to mou

With the new functionality of remote mount controlled by fileset, it gives the opportunity to grant or deny access to different filesets within the same file system. Although the functionality is deployed on the owning cluster, at the remote clust...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale - automatic audit log files rotation

The File Audit Logging functionality from Spectrum Scale captures file operations on a file system and logs them to a retention enabled fileset.Depending on the number of operations at the Spectrum Scale file system, it can generate lots of audit ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale GPFS client running on z/OS

Customer desires to speed up time to insights from their systems of record on z/OS.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Reflink/ficlone support

reflink/ficlone is a system call for making clones of files, where all data blocks is initially shared, and changes are then done through copy-on-write/redirect-on-write. This can be done through "cp --reflink", or IOCTL_FICLONERANGE system call. ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow group owners to also query filesets

We have user filesets (independent) that are owned by root but the group is actually the user. Unfortunately Spectrum Scale seems not to take group ownership into account and only the owner can query the fileset (mmlsfileset) which seems overly re...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Allow guest access to an SMB share

With medical instruments and probably many other devices not always connected to an Active Directory domain due to aging operating systems on the instruments' consoles or instruments' vendors restrictions or limitations, it would be necessary for ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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