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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon
about 4 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...
almost 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 ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

HPO to support InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to have HPO support for deployment on InfiniBand infrastructure.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

HPO to support AFM managed data along with data transfer to AWS S3

In order to provide high-performance hybrid-cloud object storage for Analytics & AI, within HPO, it is required to process S3 object data via AFM to on-prem AND on AWS S3. To place/move objects intelligently on/to AWS S3, HPO AFM needs to supp...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CNSA on OpenShift on bare-metal along with InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to support CNSA on bare-metal OpenShift with InfiniBand by June 2023. Workaround of CNSA on VMware with InfiniBand is not supported, because OpenShift does not supp...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future 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...
almost 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
almost 4 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
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 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 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration