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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Automate process to deploy OS+drivers in protocol nodes

Today approach to deploy protocol nodes is to use xcat for protocol node OS+drivers and Toolkit for protocol node rpms. This request is to provide a supported automation to deploy OS+drivers for protocol nodes.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Modification of smb.conf to prevent vulnerability

The customer has to set 'server signing=mandatory' in smb.conf to prevent vulnerability.https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/887429http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731957.aspxhttp://www.nessus.org/u?74b80723http://www.samba.org/samba...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for Windows Client nodes in AFM Cache Cluster

Require support for Spectrum Scale Windows client nodes with AFM Cache clusters.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Security: Spectrum Scale read-only access on client nodes

We would like to distribute software using a Spectrum Scale filesystem to compute nodes in an HPC environment but want to make sure malicous users cannot modify files which would enable them to spread malware. In NFS environments this can be estab...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

IBM CES Object: Long lasting Swift transfers fail if Keystone token expires

IBM CES Object: Long lasting Swift uploads fail if Keystone token expires during the transfer.This applies to big files which are segmented (by the user, or by the default configuration), and to recursive uploads of directory trees.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support for Grouping protocol nodes for separate workloads

Client would like the ability to group Protocol nodes for specific uses rather than having every protocol sharing every export.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Compress files on initial placement

V5 Functionality. Allow a file placement policy to specify compression. The fast compression library combined with the compressed data write will be faster than the time taken to write the uncompressed data to disk and the same for reading. So the...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Enable ESS and Scale GUI option to enter an editable text box or a drop-down list

Add the ability, in the ESS and Spectrum Scale GUIs to be settable as a GUI login default an editable text box or a drop-down list for searching files. For example, add a search field option to search, export and apply filter for counting differen...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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