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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Allow IBM Spectrum Protect Client installed directly on ESS Appliance Family

When performing backup operations on ESS using MMbackup and IBM Spectrum Protect, the current architecture needs to have a Backup Proxy in order to configure the IBM Spectrum Protect and MMbackup. In this configuration, MMbackup currently forces t...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Manual ticket creation by mmcallhome/GUI

mmcallhome is capable of creating HW tickets at IBM support portal on failing hardware automatically. Sometimes it would be helpful to create ticket manually. The credential/system information are directly available. Also any snaps and trace data ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Improve DIO on sparse files to avoid E-HOLE error

The customer is using Db2 pureScale and allocates tablespace using preallocation.But there are enormous performance issue was caused by the DIO thrashing ( frequent switching back and forth between DIO and Buffered IO ) due to E_HOLE errors.We ana...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support more than 15 remote clusters with fileset access control

Customer needs strict separation of filesets accessible on different compute clusters, and want to utilize RFAC to control what view each of the compute clusters has access to in the file system. Customer was then surprised when they hit the limit...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Preventive alert for cluster key certificate expiration

According to the recent flash " IBM Storage Scale: An expired cluster key prevents nodes from connecting to the Storage Scale cluster resulting in admin commands failing to update the cluster configuration.https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/71...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Role Based Encryption

Storage Scale's current encryption process allows anyone with access to the encrypted filesystem, with the proper access controls, to read data that was previously written.What Discover Financial services, Lockheed Martin and Well Fargo (Matt Klos...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

IO Performance Reporting/Tracking of Specific Applications / HPC Jobs

Add the ability to provide application / job specific performance monitoring and reporting (mmperfmon and GUI). Many HPC customers would like the ability to trace IOs from the filesystem perspective with the granularity of the application/job. Thi...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Storage Scale support only Rsyslog for log monitoring instead of syslog-NG

Storage Scale supports only Rsyslog for log management, but has several security risks. The better solution would be support for syslog-NG
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Allow custom nsswitch configuration (sssd, LDAP or others) in Spectrum Scale

All clients using Windows system connecting to Scale cluster export services with Kerberos through Samba. Allow user-defined nsswitch configuration for spectrum scale
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

List Fileset Capacity of Data in Different Pools

Using the mmlsfileset command, GUI, or both - add ability to see what is the capacity of the fileset on differnet pools. If a filesystem has different pools ie. system, tier1, tier2, etc... using the mmlsfileset command get the percentage of the f...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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