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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...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Expediting file system recovery for very large environments

Enterprise Scale environments are typically comprised of a large quantity of i-nodes and/or file counts for footprints of a few hundred PB in a single filesystem. When an unexpected event occurs, such as fs log corruption, running mmfsck to recove...
4 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...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Efficient Deletion of Fileset backup data based on mmBackup per Fileset

We are running multi-petabyte Scale file systems in our HPC environment. User data is organized per project using independent filesets. The backup of user data is performed using mmBackup per fileset. For new projects, a new fileset is created. Wh...
about 2 months 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...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

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.
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Support TLS 1.3 for use with IBM SKLM

Industry is requiring stronger current encryption levels.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

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

NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Manual ticket creation by mmcallhome/GUI

mmcallhome is capable of creating HW tickets at IBM support portal on failing hardware automatically. Sometimes it would be helpful to create ticket manually. The credential/system information are directly available. Also any snaps and trace data ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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