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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Client Supend/Maintenance Mode

    Add the possibility to put a GPFS client node in a suspend mode or maintenance mode.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Disable the Spectrum Scale GUI service without disabling the REST API service in Spectrum Scale

    Bank of America is a tier 1 segment client that adopts lots of IBM technologies. At this moment, they are adopting Openshift and making its way into the corporation. To feed this openshift environment, the containers need to access a shared filesy...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    Enable mmapplypolicy function via REST-API

    Client has one self-service REST-API based application developed for providing SMB/NFS shares to their clients. They have different storage pools, and their clients can define which tier they want the data to be stored, and also select over time t...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    Enhance security for remote Spectrum Scale mounts

    When a Spectrum Scale filesystem is mounted to a client (or a remote cluster), the entire filesystem is available. This is a potential security concern.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

    Allow Spectrum Scale Adds and Deletes via List with individual node errors

    mmaddnode/mmdelnode current behavior when submitting a "NodeFile" is if one node is in the cluster or fails to add/delete for any reason then the whole list fails. This behavior seems to be the case with most of the mm commands that accept -N <...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Encryption - tool to check health status of all configured encryption servers

    When Encryption is configured on a file system. the key server must be available to allow user file access. When the key server fails, data access is lost. We need a tools that can be run to check key server health, check retrieval of keys, and co...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    In Spectrum Scale with Spectrum Archive ES solution, customer want to know hwo many data are in disk and tapes

    Customer attaches few x86 nodes into ESS cluster and enable Spectrum Archive EE in those x86 nodes to archive cold data from ESS tapes. Customer create few fileset to provide data service for their end uses in different department. The requirement...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Intel Omnipath support in Spectrum Scale

    I'm just wondering if native Omnipath verbs support is on the roadmap for Spectrum Scale (GPFS).
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

    Support GPFS on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and future LTS releases

    Support Ubuntu LTS releases in addition to Debian
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

    GPFS Pagepool enhancement

    Nvidia wants an option to pagepool. Layer on top of existing static pagepool, the ability to have a dynamic layer of pagepool while keeping existing pagepool static. Similar to Linux page-cache for caching data, and a similar option equivalent of ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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