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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

    Protocols - S3 Glacier for Storage Protect managed tape libraries

    It seems the feature has been implemented in NooBaa, but Storage Scale still does not officially support the S3 Glacier feature. Without S3 Glacier support, S3 users have no idea that their data has been migrated. This creates challenges for syste...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Future consideration

    Detailed information about a problematic inode

    “When we encounter an issue caused by or impacting a specific file which leads to deadlock conditions in the file locking functionality that scale supports the Scale development is able to provide us with an inode value after analysis of gpfs.snap...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Independent management of CES NFS and SMB service

    Customer is using CES SMB and NFS.They are using Active Directory authentication.Customer cannot stop CES SMB service independently as NFS requires SMB to authenticate users with Active Directory.Error message: "Stop NFS first in order to stop SMB...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Reduce or eliminate cluster-wide NFS grace period impact during Ganesha/CES node restart

    In Storage Scale CES NFS environments, restarting a single Ganesha/CES node triggers an approximately 90-second NFS grace period that impacts client I/O across the NFS service. For high-availability environments, a single gateway node restart shou...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enable remote Clusters to connect at all local interfaces

    For security or performance reasons the network is divided into different zones, either to isolate different tenants or to separate different types of network traffic. To enable multitenancy, a Storage Scale Cluster should be able to serve multipl...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Observe Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for Zimon

    The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), cf. https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.pdf, foresees /var for data writes and /opt for installed software (quasi write once read many, WORM). That is usually what system admins desig...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    CES Auth - SSSD

    All clients using Windows system connecting to Scale cluster export services with Kerberos through Samba. Allow user-defined nsswitch configuration for spectrum scale
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Process and automation to simplify the patching and software update of large node count clusters

    Managaing the the currency of Spectrum/Storage Scale systems are difficult when you have over 1000 nodes within the cluster in question. The request is for the process and automation for both the local repository and cluster endpoints where upon r...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

    1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    IO Performance Reporting/Tracking of Specific Applications / HPC Jobs

    Add the ability to provide application / job specific performance monitoring and reporting (mmperfmon and GUI). Many HPC customers would like the ability to trace IOs from the filesystem perspective with the granularity of the application/job. Thi...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

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