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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Add callback for hard quota limit reached.

It would be useful to have a callback option for when hard quota limits where reached. While softQuotaExceeded and usageUnderSoftQuota are very useful, we would like to have an option to register a call back to be notified if a USR, GRP, or FILESE...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

License Data via RestAPI

Scale will soon only be license via TB and not via Sockets. This mean we need to update the way how to keep control of our license status and by that we also want to move away from Clients / Agent based License tools to more web based license tool...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Restripe options for balance and policy

Restriping a file or a filesystem can be done for balance or to change location policy or both. However the -b option even when it gets to a relatively balanced state continues to reassign locations and move data when wadfg uses random placement e...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Spectrum Scale Proxy Support for PCI compliance

Client uses Scale as object storage for IBM FileNet P8 to store auto insurance claim objects. Project is to archive objects using TCT and iCOS
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

start services after gpfs (filesystems) is ready using systemd

the current systemd units gpfs.service and <fs-mountpoint>.mount units can't be used to depend on (After/Required/.. systemd attributes) for other services. GPFS service is reporting itself as successfully started long before it actually com...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Delivered

Spectrum Scale GPFS support for Splunk

GPFS is not a supported file system by vendor Splunk
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

SuSE Kernel Updates caused GPFS incompatibility.

GM was forced to perform 2 GPFS upgrades across 3 large clusters due to SuSE security patches conflicting with GPFS. SuSE and IBM are requested to work together to keep this from happening going forward.
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Loss of access with nsddevices script

This is the follow up of case TS001236089 when customer copy the script "nsddevices" to the directory /var/mmfs/etc/ on ESS I/O nodes that prevent the code to discover disks for the recovery groups which result in loss access. This RFE is to addre...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Prevent ESS reading /var/mmfs/etc/nsddevices file

Spectrum Scale uses a file called /var/mmfs/etc/nsddevices to determine the path names for disk devices to be used by Scale. This file is not supposed to exist on an ESS system. However, if present, it will be read. If present, it breaks the ESSs'...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

In Spectrum Scale with Spectrum Archive ES solution, customer want to know hwo many data are in disk and tapes

Customer attaches few x86 nodes into ESS cluster and enable Spectrum Archive EE in those x86 nodes to archive cold data from ESS tapes. Customer create few fileset to provide data service for their end uses in different department. The requirement...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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