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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

    Verify NFS Port Availability Before Attempting CES Recovery

    Request an enhancement to IBM Storage Scale CES NFS recovery to verify that the required network ports have been fully released before attempting to restart the NFS service. During an incident documented in case TS022452203, NFS-Ganesha became unr...
    4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Improve CES S3 Health Validation and Routing Away From Unhealthy Endpoints

    Request an enhancement to IBM Storage Scale CES S3 health monitoring to verify actual S3 service functionality before considering a protocol endpoint healthy and available for client traffic. Health checks should validate that the S3 service can s...
    4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Support OS configured sssd/PAM using FreeIPA/Redhat IDM on CES Nodes as an Austhentication Service including Kerberos Netgroups for sharing same NFS V4 and SMB Shares

    Hi Today Storage Scale does not support FreeIPA/Redhat IDM as a valid supported Authentication Service.  As My customer standard operating system uses PAM/sssd based user/group authentication all linux user access/authorization on CES nodes, ...
    21 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Asymmetric replication (for ingest) to stretched clusters

    Stretched clusters are often used in scenarios where "eventually consistent with very small RPO" semantics for new files would be acceptable, but AFM can't be used because (a) data acccess is truly active/active and (b) replication is also providi...
    7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    "AFM mode" for CES-S3 to support S3 transporting files to be accessed as files

    AFM to a CES-S3 can move files to/from the S3 bucket, but from the point of view of the file system hosting CES-S3, the files are all owned by the bucket owner and other attributes like mode bits are stored as xattrs. This is fine if all access is...
    7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Real time ransomware detection for IBM Storage Scale file systems and filesets

    IBM Storage Scale environment we need the capability for real-time ransomware detection. We use immutable snapshots for file systems and fileset already. Real-time ransomware detection gives us the ability to determine the last good immutable snap...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    CNSA support for ARM64 openshift worker

    we plan to integrate new GPU Worker in Openshift. New GPU Server like Nvidia Vera will be based on ARM Architecture (AARCH64).That architecture is supported by Spectrum Scale, but currently not in the support matrix for CNSA at openshift.For Plani...
    19 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Support CES-S3 accounts without access to creating new buckets

    We want to give access to existing datasets through S3 and NFS, and want a mapping of one NFS share for each S3 bucket. Some S3 accounts should only have readonly access to buckets (through bucket policy), and we don't want them to be able to crea...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Support tiered S3 instant retrieval buckets as home filesystem with AFM to reduce AWS bill by 68%

    Today scale supports S3 standard and S3 Glacier as AFM home filesystems. However to optimize expense we need to support tiered S3 buckets for best value. With more customer relying on cloud and amazon S3, we want to provide better value for money ...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Client request to add metadata annotations to Scale CES/S3 Objects

    Recently, MLP had inquired about Scale S3 offering annotations for metadata descriptors aligned with objects. They pointed me to a recent announcement from AWS as a reference (see below). The general idea around annotations are to capture AI relat...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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