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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Quota calculation and capacity presentation based on files size

    User quota and file set quota are calculated based on allocated capacity on GPFS (kb_allocated). If files are moved to an external tier, e.g. by transparent cloud tiering, the file system utilisation will be decreased. Storage admins should have t...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

    Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    mmbackup: Backup extended acls separately to eliminate "updated" backup

    mmbackup should generate a database of file/dir extended acls and back up such database so that TSM can be run with the SKIPACL option enabled. When the only change to a file is its extended acl or permissions, it is a waste of resources having to...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Include IBM Spectrum Scale Bridge for Grafana in the Storage Scale DAE release

    The Grafana bridge feature is very useful in determining overall Filesystem usage and performance metrics. Currently the incorporated Storage Scale GUI does not provide the same level of client filesystem utilization, this is where the Bridge for ...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

    Protocols - S3: subnet restrictions in S3 bucket policies

    One of our ESS clusters stores highly sensitive data for around two thousand projects that needs to be kept strictly separate between projects, so we neeed the possibility to add subnet-requirements to buckets for proper data separation, like we c...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

    A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    CES NFS - SLES as NFS Client on IBM Power Platform

    Many SAP Customers in Europe are running SLES for their HANA DB Workload on IBM Power Systems. Due to the current search for software that offers the customer HA cluster NFS (cNFS) server functionality, Spectrum Scale is an ideal solution. But to...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Protocols - S3: REST API for mms3 commands

    Currently a REST API call to create a new S3 user account is missing, This is needed for several client applications. The AWS REST API and client provides this function which is currently used by a client application... workaround to create user a...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Backpressure for virtual disk I/O to prevent throughput and IOPS overload to avoid "Forcing kernel panic to clear hung I/O".

    When a cluster reboots, the recovery process can generate a lot of I/O ( high throughput and IOPS ) which might hit the limits of the virtual disk. And unlike physical disks, when virtual disks get overwhelmed, we can see I/O hang for up to second...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Remove Node Feature in Spectrum Scale CNSA

    Currently in the CNSA Implementation there are no way to reduce a define CNSA-Cluster to one or more Nodes, like a mmdelnode step. The Operator has no function to do these necessary step to reduce a cluster with these request.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

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