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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Simplified descOnly support on virtual quorum node

    We should support using VM internal partition for descOnly NSD. Should not require the complexity of raw device mapping for this simple functionality, that also doesn't have any risk of data loss. I asked on the internal General Parallel File Syst...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

    Requests and limits for statefullset ibm-spectrum-scale-gui in Spectrum Scale container native shoud be configurable

    Currently CPU request for gui pods is set to 500m. This request is too large for small clusters and pod typically use ~10m. This can prevent other workload to be sheduled and it's wastefull especially in small multicluster scenarios.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    SIDhistory support needed for AD domain migration

    Our customer is going to merge 2 hospitals into one new Active Directory domain and needs to have support for SIDhistory to keep access to files from both old domains. This is needed in SAMBA in CES. Support for SIDhistory is already available in ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Convert a root fileset to an independent fileset

    With AFM working only with independent filesets and not with root fileset, a customer that is hosting some data that needs to be replicated on its root fileset and that needs to transition to AFM will need to migrate (copy/move) all the data on th...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Add SAML support

    At the present time, SAML does not seems to be supported, only LDAP.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Allow Spectrum Scale Management API to handle POSIX ACLs

    The Spectrum Scale Management API currently can not manage POSIX ACLs, only NFSv4 ACLs. We'd like to be able to manage both kinds of ACLs in our system.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Pagepool enhancements

    Today, the pagepool value in GPFS is set once typically at install. However if the workloads change, the setting needs to be done by customer intervention. One example, the pagepool needs to be readjusted when there is not enough memory left for t...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

    Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    "Too Many Groups" - Need to increase the amount of GIDs for Scale Linux from the current limit of 1020.

    if a person was a member of more than X groups, they couldn't access the GPFS filesystem. The customer opened a ticket about it with IBM. This would have been awhile ago – 2019 or so? I don't have the ticket number. Census has quite a few projects...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Auto-cleanup /tmp/mmfs

    Over time /tmp/mmfs fills up will diagnostic data from gpfs.snap. Provide a facility to cleanup those files automatically based on age.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

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