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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Add quota logging capability to keep overall quota accounting consistent

For performance, nowadays, most of quota information is stored and updated in memory. Then, it will be synced back to disk in an asynchronous way later. However, there isn't a recovery mechanism for GPFS quota in abnormal situations. These can mak...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Remove Node Feature in Spectrum Scale CNSA

Currently in the CNSA Implementation there are no way to reduce a define CNSA-Cluster to one or more Nodes, like a mmdelnode step. The Operator has no function to do these necessary step to reduce a cluster with these request.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Capacity quota support for HSM managed file systems

We have two storage scale file systems which are HSM managed using Spectrum Protect for space Management. In total we are storing ~40 PB user data on tape here. Each group has been granted an amount of files and capacity for all our file systems. ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

To simplify the deployment of workloads in the cloud, IBM must improve the performance of the Scale command "mmaddnode" to allow for faster spin up/down of resources.

Nodes in the cloud need to be spun up quickly as needed. Currently mmaddnode takes too long to add a significant number of nodes as it sequentially adds nodes to the cluster; not only that, but other commands like mmchlicense, mmchnodeclass, and m...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

Add mmchfileset feature to make a fileset temporarily read-only

When migrating data, we need to be able to guarantee that no data in a fileset has been modified during the duration of the migration. Adding a feature to mmchfileset which can make a fileset read-only on a temporary basis would fulfill that requi...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring quota usage per fileset (not inodes, capacity usage)

Hi team, we found a gap in quota monitoring of spectrum scale filesets, we have the capability to monitor inode usage per-fileset, but not quota consumption in terms of capacity. Becasuse of that we urgently need a feature that could alert us when...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Role Based Encryption

Storage Scale's current encryption process allows anyone with access to the encrypted filesystem, with the proper access controls, to read data that was previously written.What Discover Financial services, Lockheed Martin and Well Fargo (Matt Klos...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support DHCP with NSD for ESS/SSS clusters

This will allow enterprises that require DHCP for ip address resolution.
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Enable multi protocol CES SMB / NFS rolling upgrades when CTDB upgrade is within a minor version.

When a multi protocol SMB and NFS CES cluster is upgraded, a short full stop of all CES protocols is required due to CTDB not allowing mixed major or minor versions. This can often cause issues with NFS mounts, if it is not possible to unmount the...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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