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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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

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

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

Send notification via SS and ESS for expiring encryption certificate

As the expiring certificate is expiring, the warning messages will be printed periodically into the GPFS daemon log (/var/adm/ras/mmfs.log.latest) in upcoming 5.0.x release. This RFE is to notify users via email or whatever means configured in ESS...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Shorten AFM/DR RPO Interval

The current design is that minimal RPO interval is 60 minutes. That is too long and will loss of huge data. Customer expect to set it to 1-5 minutes. 1-5 minutes RPO interval is acceptable in most of scenarios and it can help us to catch up compet...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

when the file name is longer then 255 character it does not get copied to the SMB share, in the future version we would like to see a error message, stating the file name is too long "

when a file is not getting copied, end user dont have any clue that file has not been copied from the windows. An error message would tell them to make the file name shorter.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

RFE: Allow file system ?-n? attribute to be changed

When a Spectrum Scale file system is created, several parameters must be specified that can not be changed after the fact. One of these is the “-n” parameter giving an estimate of the number of systems that will be mounting a file system, directly...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support L3 routable secondary data networks

Spectrum Scale was designed to support non routable secondary/private high speed data networks. Such as infiniband or 40/100GB Ethernet. The assumption being that only a limited set of servers would use the network. As our needs have grown we have...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

CES/NFS/SMB Function Enhancements

1) CES FO/FB timeout, shorten the io pending time in the failure of CES node failure/GPFS node failure/one of FG failure in replication mode. The io pending time should be less than 4-5s. 2) AFM/DR RPO Interval, the minimal RPO interval is 60 minu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

enhance security control in Kerberos based NFS to enable changes of Group / User during TGT Renewal time

Ganesha NFS uses Kerberos Tickets PAC to map user access control. This PAC ic valid as long as the Ticket is valid. If the user gets changed for any urgent reasons, this is realized only when TGT is invalidated and a new TGT is provided.In many ca...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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