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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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add sort options to mmbackup

mmapplypolicy knows some command line options to control the sorting, namely [--max-sort-bytes MaxBytes] [--other-sort-options SortOptions] [--sort-buffer-size Size] [--sort-command SortCommand] Unfortunately mmbackup does not offer any of these. ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

allow group pools to be used as the DEFAULT placement policy

If the default placement policy. If a disk pool is allowed as the default rule there should never be a "no free space error" when attempting to write a new file.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GUI role for user with permissions to only manage Quota on Spectrum Scale

We have several divisions who would need to manage their own quota on Spectrum Scale. According to the IBM DEV Team and Lab Services, users with one of the following roles should have access to the filesets/quotas: securityadmin admin protocoladmi...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

qos throttle support -N remote-node

qos throttle support -N remote-node
about 2 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

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

pmcollector, pmsensor for AIX

Is it planed to develop "pmsensor, pmcollector" (linux like) programs for AIX ? Is there any possibility to include performance monitoring of GPFS cluster running on AIX to TPC (Spectrum controll) ? thank you
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

inode number limit

Need to restrict the inode number to be lower than 2^32 . If its greater than that, 32 bit applications are failing complaining file not found.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

eviction wishes

it would be really nice if: - there was a dry-run mode for mmafmctl evict that just generated output or a logfile of what it would have evicted there was an easy way to:- limit evictions to a specified pool- specifiy a pool safelimit instead of a ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

authentication CLI supports overlapping IDs

The Samba 4.5.15 in Spectrum Scale 4.2.3.7 supports the overlapping IDsusing the following command: mmuserauth service create --data-access-method file --type ad --serversnam.domain.com --user-name AS --netbios-name <hostname>--unixmap-domai...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration