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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Spectrum Scale Config Changes in GUI

    Provide the ability for the Spectrum Scale GUI to show and make changes to the GPFS config parameters and provide recommendations to nodes and nodeclasses in the GUI. A tuning page would check the configuration of nodes and nodeclasses and allow f...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Provie a button or tab that exposes API calls that would have resulted in the previous GUI activity.

    The command line actions used are shown when a GUI action is completed, but this does not always map to a specific API call or sequence of API calls. It would be helpful for those trying to move to automated workflows to see what the API call woul...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    Use enterprise SATA drive in ECE

    In our configuration, except SAS HDD/SSD and NVME, we also need to use enterprise SATA HDD/SSD as pdisk in ECE. These SATA drives can pass the ECE precheck for DpoFua and SCT ERC. The attachment is the list.
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    support for chown/chgrp via API + policy engine

    Add API calls for the purpose of changing file/directory ownership. This could also then be exposed in the policy engine.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    allow group pools to be used as the DEFAULT placement policy

    If the default placement policy. If a disk pool is allowed as the default rule there should never be a "no free space error" when attempting to write a new file.
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    GUI role for user with permissions to only manage Quota on Spectrum Scale

    We have several divisions who would need to manage their own quota on Spectrum Scale. According to the IBM DEV Team and Lab Services, users with one of the following roles should have access to the filesets/quotas: securityadmin admin protocoladmi...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    qos throttle support -N remote-node

    qos throttle support -N remote-node
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for mmrquotad to forward quota information from a remote AFM filesystem

    When using a solution based on AFM to share a GPFS cluster among different sites, the AFM caches are the ones exposed (e.g. mounted by NFS) to servers on the local sites. The available version of mmrquotad daemon (which dates from 2010) is able to...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Spectrum scale - Read only dos attribute behavior on chmod 444/644

    mobileye recently migrated from SONAS to scale . IBM approved for the SOANS system RPQ for "read only dos attributes on chmod 444/666. Mobileye are asking for the same RPQ on scale . attached the documentation approval for SONAS.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Support Debian 9 with ISS 4 and 5

    Support Spectrum Scale on Debian 8 and later for ISS 4.2.3 and 5.0.0 and later.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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