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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Fileset Cloning or read-write snapshots

I have a microservices application running on Spectrum Scale 5.x which is looking to weekly and monthly create a copy of the production filesets that may be used for a call in support testing environment as well as an environment for upgrade and b...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Attach an existing directory to a fileset

Was discussing root admin with ibm dev Germany and realized that some commands seem never to have finished development. You have two commands one to create a fileset and another to link it to a directory. But the link one requires the directory to...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Run Spectrum Scale in IBM FS Cloud

Run Spectrum Scale in the IBM FS CLoud to feed a Hybrid Cloud data fabric. Help IBM to better compete VS MSoft Azure and Cloudera's Ozone.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Option to not automatically create mountpoints

When a Filesystem is created, GPFS makes sure, the mountpoint is created on all client nodes. We need an option to suppress this behaviour.
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Redirect GUI DB to a different directory

This RFE is to allow users for setting the PG_DATA environment in Scale GUI for redirecting the database outside the root directory of the system.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Overlay / Namespace support information (Singularity Containers)

Singularity (https://sylabs.io/singularity) is a container runtime commonly used on HPC systems that include GPFS filesystems. We are trying to understand the level of support in GPFS for overlay mounts (upperdir & lowerdir), and namespaces (i...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Increase independent filespace limit

AFM, fileset snapshots and some other features can only be used with independent filesets. Thus GPFS customers are advised to prefer them over dependent filesets.But GPFS has a hardcoded limit of 1000 independent filesets per filesystem which is t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Deliver for each Server a GPFS Client for free

GPFS aka Spectrum Scale is great- to reach a broader customer set, I suggest that we'll deliver a GPFS client/ NSD "driver for free" !
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support backup and restore of metadata

Allow administrator to backup and restore GPFS filesystem metadata without losing data stored on dataOnly or dataAndMetadata NSDs.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

GUI customization

OEM partners hope to customize the Scale GUI with specific logo. There is a scheme in GUI that still show IBM Spectrum Scale RAID logo on GUI dashboard. We need dev team to cook a total solution that allowing OEM partners to replace their product ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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