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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    AFM for Object Storage Support

    We have a large set of science data that we save on our IBM Spectrum Scale system and to be able to reduce the amount of spinning fast disk are we using IBM Spectrum Archive to extend our storage to tape. But now does our data science people ask u...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Protocols - SMB: disable share (but keep in config)

    There is no way to temporary disable and SMB or NFS exports. The only way is to delete the export. (At least for SMB exports) It would be more convenient and less likely that you make an error if you could disable it instead of delete it. It would...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Support Spectrum Protect for Space Management in Spectrum Scale 5.0 on Linux for System Z architectures

    We need support of Spectrum Protect for space management (HSM) in Spectrum Scale 5.0 in Zlinux architectures.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Implement S3 management interface in GPFS GUI

    S3 object management interface is not available in current version of GPFS GUI. Only available for SWIFT. We need this interface so that customer who want to use S3 API can manage the object easily.The customer who want to use S3 API have to use c...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    CES NFS - recover failed NFS node (marked with F flag) without reboot

    Hi We had NFS Ganesha node that failed - but we did not able to recover it , only reboot solve it. Sysmon attempted to remove the F flag three times, but all attempts to acquire the lock failed.As a result, the node remained in a failed state desp...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

    Enhance information provided in case of errors flushing file data from pagepool to persistent storage

    In case of failures in that area, file data may be corrupted. Providing the information which files are affected omits the effort of manually identifying them by expensive scans of the file system.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Remove distinction between private and public IP address ranges

    Remove the distinction between processing for private IP address ranges 10.0.0.0, 192.168.0.0 and the other one and public IP address ranges. Process the private subnet ranges the same way public IP address ranges are processed. Remove the undocum...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    To develop a report that shows overall capacity consumed per user that adds up local and offline files and versions

    Current quota management on Spectrum Scale only considers consumed space of local files. With the introduction of features such Transparent Cloud Tiering for COS, it is needed a control over the space users are consuming for both local and offline...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale to support quota management on external Storage pool.

    Request Spectrum Scale to support quota management on external Storage pool.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Security: Spectrum Scale read-only access on client nodes

    We would like to distribute software using a Spectrum Scale filesystem to compute nodes in an HPC environment but want to make sure malicous users cannot modify files which would enable them to spread malware. In NFS environments this can be estab...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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