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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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NFS protocol nodes upgrade without disruption

Customer is having NFS being autheticated my MS AD. In this case SMB service needs to be installed and according to documentation, NFS outage is done when upgrading protocol nodes. Customer is requesting non-disruptive NFS protocol nodes upgrade a...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Monitoring quota usage per fileset (not inodes, capacity usage)

Hi team, we found a gap in quota monitoring of spectrum scale filesets, we have the capability to monitor inode usage per-fileset, but not quota consumption in terms of capacity. Becasuse of that we urgently need a feature that could alert us when...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Support TLS 1.3 for use with IBM SKLM

Industry is requiring stronger current encryption levels.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Storage scale performance statistics for SMB shares

EMS GUI (Monitoring > Statistics) only provides SMB performance statistics for cluster or node level. Having stats on each individual SMB share would be very useful. NFS shares have such stats.
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

network access controlm for mmsysmon REST API

Currently mmsysmon REST API allows all inbound connections. Our cybersecurity penetration team has successfully sent network packets that caused REST API to malfunction, leaving hundreds of connections in CLOSE_WAIT state. In this scenario CherryP...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CNSA HashiCorp Vault Encryption Key Server Support

Add support in CNSA for using HashiCorp Vault encryption key server with Scale CNSA. Currently supported in normal Scale but not in CNSA.
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Storage Scale - Need GPFS to support storing or exporting performance data into enterprise-level time series database like InfluxDB or Prometheus

Problem: 1. The "pmcollector" service usually cannot work well when the GPFS cluster has over 100 nodes. As a result, the GUI will not display the performance data normally. And restarting the GUI will not help.2. ZIMON can not process large amoun...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CES support on SLES 12 SP3 Little Endian

Recompile the CES packages to support SLES 12 SP3 on Power 8 and newer processors. There is already support in place for RHEL, but some customers are using SLES as their primary OS primarily due to SAP Hana installations and there is no support fo...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

implement ability to remote mount a fileset instead of a full filesystem
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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