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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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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...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Manual ticket creation by mmcallhome/GUI

mmcallhome is capable of creating HW tickets at IBM support portal on failing hardware automatically. Sometimes it would be helpful to create ticket manually. The credential/system information are directly available. Also any snaps and trace data ...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow custom nsswitch configuration (sssd, LDAP or others) in Spectrum Scale

All clients using Windows system connecting to Scale cluster export services with Kerberos through Samba. Allow user-defined nsswitch configuration for spectrum scale
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable support for SLES as NFS Client on IBM Power Platform

Many SAP Customers in Europe are running SLES for their HANA DB Workload on IBM Power Systems. Due to the current search for software that offers the customer HA cluster NFS (cNFS) server functionality, Spectrum Scale is an ideal solution. But to...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

List Fileset Capacity of Data in Different Pools

Using the mmlsfileset command, GUI, or both - add ability to see what is the capacity of the fileset on differnet pools. If a filesystem has different pools ie. system, tier1, tier2, etc... using the mmlsfileset command get the percentage of the f...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Adding Support of Noobaa Metrics with Integration in Zimon Sensors

Currently the existing mmces protocols has integration of metrics in the zimon Sensor Framework, but the newest one, mms3 (noobaa-core) don't. We use the current zimonGrafanaBgridge to visualize these Metrics in Grafana. The current available func...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Role Based Encryption

Storage Scale's current encryption process allows anyone with access to the encrypted filesystem, with the proper access controls, to read data that was previously written.What Discover Financial services, Lockheed Martin and Well Fargo (Matt Klos...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future 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.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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