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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Additional information needed about mmbackup jobs

The mmbackup command uses the Scale policy engine to determine what needs to be backed up. It should be possible to get additional information about the backup from the policy engine, including the amount of data to be backed up. This kind of info...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Forcing user and group IDs on SMB shares

With cross protocol access to a share, Unix users creating files with Spectrum Scale or NFS clients are using IDs that might not be known to the Active Directory or LDAP servers if a centralised external ID mapping is not in place or does not cove...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

ESS and Spectrum Scale version numbers don't line up

As it stands today, ESS version numbers do not match the version of Spectrum Scale installed on the ESS. This is confusing. As an example, ESS version 5.3 is Scale version 5.0.3.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

mmkeyserv: changing from regular to simplified setup

Our system was setup for encryption a few years ago with "regular setup" for the key management (manual copy and synchronisation of RKM.conf, etc).To simplifiy and secure the regular key exchange, we want to switch to the "simplified setup" using ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Restripe options for balance and policy

Restriping a file or a filesystem can be done for balance or to change location policy or both. However the -b option even when it gets to a relatively balanced state continues to reassign locations and move data when wadfg uses random placement e...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

SuSE Kernel Updates caused GPFS incompatibility.

GM was forced to perform 2 GPFS upgrades across 3 large clusters due to SuSE security patches conflicting with GPFS. SuSE and IBM are requested to work together to keep this from happening going forward.
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Loss of access with nsddevices script

This is the follow up of case TS001236089 when customer copy the script "nsddevices" to the directory /var/mmfs/etc/ on ESS I/O nodes that prevent the code to discover disks for the recovery groups which result in loss access. This RFE is to addre...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

File System Level virtualization

the customer created different gpfs file systems for different purpose, e.g. file system 1 for data archive of business department A, file system 2 for data archive of business department B, file system 3 for data archive of business department C....
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Increase granularity of per-client attributes to per-filesystem (or per-fileset?)

There are several settings in Spectrum Scale which have a per-client scope which could benefit from having per-filesystem scope (or a per-filesystem, per-client scope). Of these, we are primarily interested in flushOnClose becoming more granular (...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Rename kafka and zookeeper resources for LWE to avoid conflicts with existing distro/user packages

GPFS provides installations for apache kafka and zookeeper software are part of mmmsgqueue/LWE/filesystem audit functionality. Existing user environments which employ tools which rely on access to zookeeper, using standard provided library interfa...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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