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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Provide a changelog for Scale releases

Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

CNSA Support for Per-PV Encryption

Add support for Scale CNSA to provide per-PV encryption allowing for each PV to use its own encryption key from GKLM or HashiCorp Vault. This would be configured as part of the encryption config CR for the PVC. Allow for each fileset associated wi...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Storage Scale - Need GPFS to support storing or exporting performance data into enterprise-level time series database like InfluxDB or Prometheus

Problem: 1. The "pmcollector" service usually cannot work well when the GPFS cluster has over 100 nodes. As a result, the GUI will not display the performance data normally. And restarting the GUI will not help.2. ZIMON can not process large amoun...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

more useful output from mmrestripefs failures

It is possible, in a number of scenarios, to have a mmrestripefs operation fail when many disks are suspended and the filesystem is being restriped to bring the disks to the empty state. This is not an uncommon operation, especially when data is m...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

zstd compression & dictionary support

If zstd support is added to the product it would be very interesting to allow for a few dictionaries to be used to improve (de)compression speed and compression ratio. This is ideal in situations where ILM policies can be written to target either ...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add mmchfileset feature to make a fileset temporarily read-only

When migrating data, we need to be able to guarantee that no data in a fileset has been modified during the duration of the migration. Adding a feature to mmchfileset which can make a fileset read-only on a temporary basis would fulfill that requi...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Support DHCP with NSD for ESS/SSS clusters

This will allow enterprises that require DHCP for ip address resolution.
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Storage scale performance statistics for SMB shares

EMS GUI (Monitoring > Statistics) only provides SMB performance statistics for cluster or node level. Having stats on each individual SMB share would be very useful. NFS shares have such stats.
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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