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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    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

    Shorten AFM/DR RPO Interval

    The current design is that minimal RPO interval is 60 minutes. That is too long and will loss of huge data. Customer expect to set it to 1-5 minutes. 1-5 minutes RPO interval is acceptable in most of scenarios and it can help us to catch up compet...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    when the file name is longer then 255 character it does not get copied to the SMB share, in the future version we would like to see a error message, stating the file name is too long "

    when a file is not getting copied, end user dont have any clue that file has not been copied from the windows. An error message would tell them to make the file name shorter.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    CES/NFS/SMB Function Enhancements

    1) CES FO/FB timeout, shorten the io pending time in the failure of CES node failure/GPFS node failure/one of FG failure in replication mode. The io pending time should be less than 4-5s. 2) AFM/DR RPO Interval, the minimal RPO interval is 60 minu...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale ECE - Need quota feature to support limiting the resource usage on different storage pools

    In more and more projects, we are delivering GPFS file systems with multiple storage pools for teiring. And our customers keep asking for quota limitation of each user/group/fileset on different storage pools, because different pools have differen...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Make mmclone permissions work like cp

    Currently, a file clone created with mmclone always has its group owner set to the primary gid of the creating process, without regard to the setgid bit of the containing directory, and without regard to the group owner of the original file. Other...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Make mmclone permissions work like cp

    Currently, a file clone created with mmclone always has its group owner set to the primary gid of the creating process, without regard to the setgid bit of the containing directory, and without regard to the group owner of the original file. Other...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Enhance Installation Toolkit Support for Cluster with active usesudowrapper configuration

    We are planing to Implement saveguard vault design with use of saveguard snapshots. One requirement here the cluster must use sudowrapper as a prerequisite to work and beeing secure.The ansible installationtoolkit has currently no support for sudo...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Avoid un-necessary audit logging for ls/mmlsattr/ILM list policy.

    ls/mmlsattr/ILM list POLICY are creating OPEN event logs. AFAIK, these actions doesn't open the file only read the metadata of a file, generating the audit logs on these kinda operations is creating lot of audit logs for us. It's mentioned in doc,...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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