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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Additional information needed about mmbackup jobs

    The mmbackup command uses the Scale policy engine to determine what needs to be backed up. It should be possible to get additional information about the backup from the policy engine, including the amount of data to be backed up. This kind of info...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Allow Spectrum Scale Adds and Deletes via List with individual node errors

    mmaddnode/mmdelnode current behavior when submitting a "NodeFile" is if one node is in the cluster or fails to add/delete for any reason then the whole list fails. This behavior seems to be the case with most of the mm commands that accept -N <...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Storage Scale support only Rsyslog for log monitoring instead of syslog-NG

    Storage Scale supports only Rsyslog for log management, but has several security risks. The better solution would be support for syslog-NG
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Encryption - tool to check health status of all configured encryption servers

    When Encryption is configured on a file system. the key server must be available to allow user file access. When the key server fails, data access is lost. We need a tools that can be run to check key server health, check retrieval of keys, and co...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Increase the published limts on stored OBJECTS for DAS/HPO (NooBaa)

    The published limits of DAS/HPO do not meet the enterprise requirements of Millennium Partners. The client has requested the following improvements. The IBM Spectrum Scale DAS supports the following scaling options: Up to 10 TB single object size ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    Increase Quorum Node MAximum limit from 8 to 9

    Required for HSBC : Scale 5.1.x on Linux on x86. Stretch cluster across 3 x phys sites. Client has failure tolerence requirement for Scale stretch cluster to tolerate as follows: Scale must tolerate a single site failure AND a single quorum node f...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Allow more than 20 threshold rules in the GUI (mmhealth)

    You can only create a maximum of 20 threshold rules, either through the Spectrum Scale GUI or directly with the mmhealth command. This limit should be increased (e.g. to a minimum of 50)
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

    Add afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce parameters to ISS REST API fileset endpoints

    With ISS 5.0.5"Data migration by using AFM migration enhancements" was introduced. And with it two new fileset parameters afmRefreshOnce and afmReaddirOnce. In 5.1 you introduced these parameters in the REST API GET fileset calls but not in the PO...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    support nsd network checksums in non gnr environment

    Support nsd network checksums in environments without ESS/GNR (see the settings mentioned in this thread https://www.mail-archive.com/gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org/msg02705.html).
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

    support mmapplypolicy to scan file in remote cluster

    we use mmapplypolicy to scan file status (mostly metadata like file path, size, mtime, afm cache state, ...) in a specific directory or fileset. But in remote cluster mmapplypolicy is not allowed to do it. we need support for scan file in remote c...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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