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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    use sort from rust-coreutils to speedup mmbackup/mmapplypolicy

    For large filesystems mmbackup and mmapplypolicy spend long times with sorting data. This idea is about improving those times considerably. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils is a re-implementation of the GNU coreutils. The sort command is much q...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

    FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under 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...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Automatically clean up binaries of old scale releases after updating the product

    When upgrading Scale version (both server and client nodes) using published documentation, we noticed that old versions are accumulating in /usr/lpp/mmfs/ directories. # du -sh /usr/lpp/mmfs/* 717M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.1.9.3 385M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.2.0.1 ...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    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...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - S3: multiple supplementary groups for CES S3 managed S3 accounts

    Currently there's only support for a single group ID for each S3 account. This doesn't fit well with normal file system permissions where the same account might need access to several groups of different roles. F.ex. /gpfs/fs1/department might all...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Scale CSI & CNSA should be package with base scale distribution

    IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver and IBM Storage Scale Container Native are add-on interfaces that are included in the base licensing for IBM Storage Scale. They are currently only available via external repositories that requi...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    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 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    mmbackup using virtualmountpoints for filesets

    We are submitting a Request for Enhancement (RFE) to improve the integration between IBM's mmbackup utility for Scale and IBM Storage Protect (formerly TSM). This enhancement will address significant performance bottlenecks we've encountered when ...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    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...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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