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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

AFM - flag for file TTL in AFM prefetch --list-files

When files are prefetch, users knows the useful life of the the files prefetched. In mmafmctl Device prefetch -j FilesetName --list-files, add an flag to set TTL for all the files being fetched. When TTL is reached, eviction should occur. This pre...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

AFM - Update AFMConfig map without service disruption

When NFS Home servers are brought offline for maintenance, we will have automation that updates automatically update the AFM Config map relationship. AFM needs to honor this updated map non-disruptively. Currently this is a disruptive event where ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

ArgoCD Integration for CNSA deployment lifecycle and automation

We use ArgoCD for Openshift based implementation lifecycle and patching. We need a way to integrate the CNSA images with ArgoCD to automate our CI/CD deployments for the CNSA clients across all our lanes.
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

now ibm csi issue job to gui, gui only has 16 threads to handle it, in some condition it is very slow, gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task

gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

Enhance the Policy Engine to process newline chars (0x0A) in path names.

We run GHI over Storage Scale for user file systems and have to cope with all sorts of path names. GHI makes use of the policy engine for data movement (migration, purging). We think that any path name working in (core) Storage Scale has also to b...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

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...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

Scale Storage Native Driver for Mainframe zOS

We are trying to get access to the mainframe storage on the midrange end to allow Data and AI tools like Content Aware Storage and Watson Knowledge Catalog. Following are the gaps: 1. There is no native driver for zOS. Current support is limited t...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Storage Scale Recompilation Requirement Post-RHEL Kernel Upgrade

Request IBM to remove the need for binary kernel module recompilation after RHEL kernel updates for IBM Storage Scale. This requirement adds operational overhead and complexity to patching and automation processes. While RHEL provides stable ABIs ...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

Ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket

A topic we discussed with the client was the ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket. This can be achieved with bucket policies. However, in Scale S3 we do not support the Condition clause of a bucket policy. The condition ...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

Provide helper to determine metadata size

We have a GNR cluster with > 650 million files, distributed over two filesystems. All disks are DataAndMetadata. Policy runs and mmbackup are taking very long. One speedup suggestion of the GPFS support was to use explicit metadata storage. Unf...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

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