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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Enable AWS STS support

Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support BSD groups semantics

Customer is migrating from Isilon, which supports configuring the BSD group semantincs meaning that new files inherit the group id of the parent group. Some file systems on linux support the "grpid" or "bsdgroups" mount option to enable same seman...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

REST API - Quotas for Users and Groups

Create a REST API to show User and Group quotas. Currently, the only quotas are Filesystems and Filesets - If users have a homedir set to a fileset you can get their quota, however if user or group quotas are set they cannot be retrieved.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale should support resource management using cgroups version 2 with systemd

The current systemd version in RHEL 8 is now capable doing resource management using cgroups version 2.We are interested in the feature to configure I/O bandwidth. But to use it a device is needed: IOReadIOPSMax=device IOPS, IOWriteIOPSMax=device ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

'failureDetectionTime' less than 10

We require to set 'failureDetectionTime' less than 10 in File System replica with DAE/DME or Erasure Coding with ECE. According to case #TS009816891, the minimum value for 'failureDetectionTime' is 10. Could you please allow us to set less than 10...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Limit NFS Exports to a CES Group

Following limitation for NFS exports is in place (see A8.9 in Q&A section Spectrum Scale 5.1.2): If a file system that was previously exported successfully by NFS on a CES node becomes unavailable, the NFS daemon exits and the CES node becomes...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale GUI - Need to improve pmcollector service with large amount of performance data

Problem: "pmcollector" service failed to start while there was large amount of performance data (about 10GB for 6 months). Performance data can not be shown on the GUI. And restarting the GUI did not help. ZIMON can not process large amount of per...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

GUI improvement to policies

1. Often we see that if the policy gets slightly complicated, the ILM editor bails out, and only gives us the possibility of editing the policy file directly. The policy editor should be much more robust, so that it can be used for more than the s...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale REST API Endpoint for mmafmconfig

We need a way that the Spectrum Scale REST API exposes the mmafmconfig command. In particular the mmafmconfig enable <fileset> is important for us.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enhancment to Spectrum Scale DMAPI - dmapiEventTimeout code

The Spectrum Scale Data Management API for HSM integration has a configuration parameter dmapiEventTimeout with specific behaviour for NFS environments. However, this behaviour does not translate to other protocol scenarios such as AFM, SMB or Obj...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration