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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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

RFE to support kernel weak-updates without rebuilding GPL layer

One of our customer have a request to make it easier to update kernel for security fixes every few weeks. Currently any time one needs to upgrade kenrel he must recompile GPFS portability layer. However it should be possible to support weak-update...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale 4.2.3 - Monitoring I/O processes

We have in our production environment a GPFS cluster, version 4.2.3, used by the SAS system in version 9.4 M3The cluster consists of 11 servers, with Linux operating system RedHat 6.7 and 7.3, being 5 physical and 06 virtual.It has a dedicated dec...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future 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 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

enhancements to allocation manager to help alleviate region request/relinquish thrashing

When meta regions are small and fragmented and the node count is large a situation can occur in which clients start thrashing the allocation manager requesting and relinquishing meta regions. In our environment this seems to occur most often when ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Need qualification of Ganesha NFS with Spectrum Scale for FileNet customers

FileNet Content Manager uses NFS to access Spectrum Scale to score document content. Customers can run FileNet Content Manager in a traditional environment or in a containerized environment. In the Containerized environment, Kubernetes provides a ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

ESS to support AD integration

ESS does not currently support joining AD in order to perform user authentication. ESS should support AD instead of, or in addition to, local authentication.
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for SEDs with ECE

Support the use of SEDs for storage with ECE, either with locally managed keys, centrally managed keys, or ideally, both
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

SNMPv3 support in GPFS GUI

Morgan Stanley is asking for upgrade to SNMPv3 (GPFS GUI alerts)
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

parallel exec mmnfs command

We need Spectrum Scale to have this capability that to exec parallel mmnfs export.As the PMR TS001242955 said: "When using mmnfs export command, it will modify and update export configuration in CCR repository. And we know, the CCR DB update requi...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration