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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Support Scale Client running on VMware ESXi 8.x

According to the support page, VMware ESX 7.x is supoorted but not ESXi8.x . Table 72. VMware support matrix on VM guest https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#virtual also please provide GDS(GPUDirect Storage ) support informatio...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add offical Support for s3A semantics in CES-S3 Protocol

Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

API endpoint consideration: show file list under a directory

Currently the gpfs API does not support returning file list under a directory. This limits the developer's ability to retrieve accurate file paths while working with other API endpoints (e.g. get ACL).
27 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Enable AWS STS support

Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale ECE - Support 512 storage nodes in a single ECE cluster

With the rapid growth in demand for AIGC and autonomous driving, our customers are expecting a single GPFS cluster and file system to scale to a larger size. We need a single GPFS cluster to surpass the current limit of 256 storage nodes, reaching...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

GUI change of units how quota is set up

because we need this feature for better daily operation of capacities...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

REST API for mms3 - enhancement: create S3 user

Currently a REST API call to create a new S3 user account is missing, This is needed for several client applications. The AWS REST API and client provides this function which is currently used by a client application... workaround to create user a...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Allow use of directory other then /tmp for GPFS temporary files.

We use GPFS / Spectrum Storage on our High Performance Computing Cluster for it's primary file system and use various mm* commands to monitor the health of the cluster and alert us if GPFS goes offline on a node. If a users HPC compute job inadver...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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