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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Request to support kernel version 5.4.15.x

    Our OEM parnter Inspur Electronic Information were resold many ECE cluster to their customers. One of key issue is limited kernel supported in Storage Scale. Their customer need flexible support policy to kernel version. Their customer need to use...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Concurrent upgrades for Spectrum Scale Protocol Nodes

    Currently, upgrades to Spectrum Scale are disruptive, documented to be 20 minutes per node. The stated reason is that SMB versions cannot co-exist, however, it is likely that not all upgrades introduce a new version of SMB.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

    Tools or self tune mechanisms for troubleshooting

    Customers would like to have tools that would allow them to analyze our diagnostic information so they could more quickly determine what was wrong with the system and try to correct it (i.e. Self tune based on the latency and throughput of the net...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Automate process to deploy OS+drivers in protocol nodes

    Today approach to deploy protocol nodes is to use xcat for protocol node OS+drivers and Toolkit for protocol node rpms. This request is to provide a supported automation to deploy OS+drivers for protocol nodes.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Able to do mmcallback to stop the GPFS event, exemple prevent to unmount filesystems if services are still running

    It would be nice to be able to configure a mmcallback in Spectrum Scale where the return code of the command run by the callback could stop the GPFS event. Actually, from the IBM documentation, GPFS can make 3 differents things in a mmcallback : -...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is Windows node

    When run from Scale node on x86 RHEL 7.3 (x86), mmnetverify fails ungracefully when --target-node is a Windows node.Moreover, it fails inconsistently when used with the node's "Scale" interface vs. the Admin node name, providing additional confusion.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

    selective objectizer feature needed

    In unfied file and object env, there is some cases that ibmobjectizer should have an option to run only some selective filesets or containers to avoid sudden additional heavy workload due to ibmobjectizer run.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    GUI customization

    OEM partners hope to customize the Scale GUI with specific logo. There is a scheme in GUI that still show IBM Spectrum Scale RAID logo on GUI dashboard. We need dev team to cook a total solution that allowing OEM partners to replace their product ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    SNMPv3 support in GPFS GUI

    Morgan Stanley is asking for upgrade to SNMPv3 (GPFS GUI alerts)
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    nfsv4 kerberized solution

    We would like a solution to get the better performance and security of NFSv4 in a kerberized environment. This solution is to be supported in IBM Spectrum Scale protocol nodes.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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