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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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ECE edition 5.1.9 version support 256 storage node in one cluster

as title, we need 5.1.9 version（LTS）support 256 Necessary
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

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.
7 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...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under 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

Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

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

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...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Adding Enhancment on Measurement Monitoring on level of Fileset quota

Because in our company GPFS structure based on three or four filesystem like /production & /test and we created million of fileset based on project name but unfortunately some of these filesets reach maximum quota 100% and application down bec...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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 HashiCorp Vault Encryption Key Server Support

Add support in CNSA for using HashiCorp Vault encryption key server with Scale CNSA. Currently supported in normal Scale but not in CNSA.
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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