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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Allow no lock control option on specific protocol exports

Some workloads do not need ensuring lock and an offering if parallel access will be needed or not (specially for CIFS). So for some workloads CTDB would not necessarily be used on all exports
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)

Require a VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter) to be developed for SCALE / ESS. Have an urgent requirements for a SAS Grid implementation that will be deployed across two locations. Scale AFM Async D/R replication will be used replicate data b...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Simplify addition of "ephemeral" native clients

To add a client to a Spectrum Scale cluster requires that both the client node is booted and for the administrator to run administrative commands on an admin node. In a virtualised environment where clients are elasticly created, this is difficult...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

RFE for GPFS - requirement for a non root user to be able to run their scripts under GPFS without errors / SELinux related

It seems like there is a limitation in GPFS that a non-root user may not modify extended attributes of a file unless they are in the "user" namespace.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Support Debian 9 with ISS 4 and 5

Support Spectrum Scale on Debian 8 and later for ISS 4.2.3 and 5.0.0 and later.
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

MFA Support for Spectrum Scale CLI

We had the request to enhance the security modell in spectrum scale for mm cli cmd to support multi factor authentication (MFA). The implementation should support the current well accepted standard of RFC 6238.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

modify mmsetquota to have --reset option

We have received the subject pmr here in Spectrum Scale Level2. I read the request and It seems that customer is requesting a function similar to "mmedquota -t <fileset> --reset" ?? --resetWith this option, when grace time is modified, all r...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Mirror snapshots to another cluster as a destination snapshot

Ability to mirror a snapshot to a remote cluster - as a snapshot.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Fast approximate df for filesets

mmlsfileset df calculations are slow and causes high load on a server.  A fast approximate filesetdf (alike mmlsquota) is needed.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Parallelise mmgetpdisktopology checks

In a recent install carried out by an IBM engineer several steps repeately invoked mmgetpdisktopology to check drive attributes. This queries each drive one by one which each drive query taking around just over a second. These were seen in the for...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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