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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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Storage Scale support only Rsyslog for log monitoring instead of syslog-NG

Storage Scale supports only Rsyslog for log management, but has several security risks. The better solution would be support for syslog-NG
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'versioning' in S3 buckets

Versioning in Amazon S3 is a means of keeping multiple variants of an object in the same bucket. You can use the S3 Versioning feature to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your buckets. With versioning you can...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

NFS Ganesha server to support over 4TB user quota report.

User quota below 4TB report currect :$ quota -s Disk quotas for user ibm (uid 1000): Filesystem space quota limit grace files quota limit grace 10.155.7.115:/gpfs/gpfs0/ibm 18414M 4000G 0K 33 0 0 User quota over 4TB report this capacity which is...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

HDFS transparency: Support Certificates with 4096 key length

As security requirements rise more and more, it is essential to support for HDFS transparency certificates with 4096 key length instead of only 2048.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Add logrotation for cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy

Please add log rotation for the cherrypy logs in /var/adm/ras/cherrypy They can get quite large and fill up the available disk space.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

Increase the published limts on stored OBJECTS for DAS/HPO (NooBaa)

The published limits of DAS/HPO do not meet the enterprise requirements of Millennium Partners. The client has requested the following improvements. The IBM Spectrum Scale DAS supports the following scaling options: Up to 10 TB single object size ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

HPO to support AFM managed data along with data transfer to AWS S3

In order to provide high-performance hybrid-cloud object storage for Analytics & AI, within HPO, it is required to process S3 object data via AFM to on-prem AND on AWS S3. To place/move objects intelligently on/to AWS S3, HPO AFM needs to supp...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Enhancement request to Spectrum Scale event alerting mechanism to allow event correlation

Spectrum Scale has long provided mechanisms to alert about events. In the past, it was common to use callbacks to do that. Today, Scale provides webhooks that can be received by consumers. Also, mmhealth today provides a good source of info about ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered