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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

    Requirement for LDAPS (secure LDAP) support

    Since 2020 Microsoft has been actively pushing for adoption of LDAPS (LDAP over SSL/TLS) for security hardening of Active Directory Cloud and on-premise environments. Therefore, products to maintain supported access will need to support LDAPS. Cus...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

    Support Rolling Upgrades for MMS3/NooBaa Clusters

    Add support for performing rolling upgrades of MMS3/NooBaa cluster nodes while maintaining availability of the S3 service. MMS3/NooBaa currently relies on a shared filesystem for configuration and cluster-related data. The current architecture and...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Provide progress reporting for inode scan activities associated with disk recovery operations.

    Problem Statement In large IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) environments, disk recovery operations can take a significant amount of time to complete. For example, our environment contains over 90 PB of data and billions of files across the cluster. Follow...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Add supported S3 server access/request logging to IBM Storage Scale S3 (MMS3)

    IBM Storage Scale S3 should provide a fully supported production mechanism for S3 server access/request logging. Storage administrators need request-level visibility comparable to traditional HTTP/S3 gateway access logs without enabling global Noo...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Support Scale Client running on VMware ESXi 8.x

    According to the support page, VMware ESX 7.x is supoorted but not ESXi8.x . Table 72. VMware support matrix on VM guest https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#virtual also please provide GDS(GPUDirect Storage ) support informatio...
    over 2 years 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...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Handle same directory renames and mkdir operations better

    We have many instances where our users are concurrently attempting to perform mkdir and renames in the same parent directory accross many nodes. These operations cannot be handled by GPFS fine-grain directory locking. This results in every operati...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Auto-Resume or Failover Across AFM Nodes

    Summary: Ensure prefetch requests survive AFM node failures via auto-resume or failover. Description: Currently, when an AFM node goes down, in-flight or queued prefetch requests assigned to that node fail and require manual retry. This creates un...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Fileset Quota Exceeded — Prefetch Requests Stuck Indefinitely

    Summary: Prevent prefetch operations from hanging when quota is exceeded. Description: When a fileset quota is exceeded: Prefetch requests neither fail nor retry Requests remain stuck indefinitely, requiring manual intervention This leads to...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Is a defect

    AFM: Enhance afmconfig map to allow nfs server stacking

    Even with nconnect=16 enabled, the HDFS NFS Gateway caps out at roughly 500 MB/s. This creates a significant waste on modern hardware, leaving high-speed network interface cards (NICs) severely underutilized. To alleviate this waste, introduce two...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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