IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Improvement to Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) for shared files.

    Request for an improved DLM mechanism when leveraging a scale out protocole node approach to better handle Locking broadcasting overhead for "shared to all" files and folder.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon

    Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

    Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale - automatic audit log files rotation

    The File Audit Logging functionality from Spectrum Scale captures file operations on a file system and logs them to a retention enabled fileset.Depending on the number of operations at the Spectrum Scale file system, it can generate lots of audit ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Request for Spectrum Scale to support Redhat SSSD as 3rd Authentication Method

    Request for Spectrum Scale to support RedHat Systems Security Software Daemon (SSSD) as a third authentication method. Salesforce # TS001343971
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    List and stop long running commands

    Some Spectrum Scale commands can take a long time to run, such as mmapplypolicy, mmrestripefs, mmecheckquota. These might be run manually, or started by cron a batch system, or a callback. But sometimes, once started, there is a need to stop the c...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Seamlessy convert subtree into (independent) fileset

    add a command to convert a subtree to an independent fileset seamlessly (without interrupting access for users) and - as a bonus - vice-versa
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    To include support of remote CES Object Clusters

    Currently, The Official Spectrum Scale Documentation states the following main points.• This setup(Remote Clusters) cannot be used for Object or iSCSI services.• The storage cluster must not have any protocol nodes (CES must be disabled). https://...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    GPFS Client/Server Capable of AIX Live Update Function

    Enhance GPFS code base to allow for a AIX 7.2 GPFS Client/Server to be capable of the AIX Live Update Function.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for GPFS Immutable Fileset to be used from NFS exports

    GPFS 3.5 and higher has built-in capabilities providing the SnapLock function to make files immutable (WORM protected). This function is based on immutable file sets but it not supported. SnapLock essentially allows to make file immutable using st...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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