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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 1, 2024

Add Support for Hardware Load Balancers like the F5

We are a large bank and a large enterprise customer. Not all Open-Source software is supported. HA-Proxy is one of those not supported. But we still need to Load balance the GPFS GUI. This is a requirement when hosting Scale in OCP. We need to place our Scale GPFS GUI nodes behind an F5 load balancer and not HA Proxy. There must also be other large customers that need to use a hardware load balancer.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 7, 2024

    Hi Thomas-

    Yes, we want to be sure when CNSA reaches out to the storage cluster to create storage, it can always reach a GUI server.


  • Admin
    THOMAS O'BRIEN
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    Jun 7, 2024

    We'd like to better understand the request, what function of the GUI are you using , is the rest API for CSI what you are referring to in this request ?

  • Admin
    THOMAS O'BRIEN
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    Mar 8, 2024

    what function of the GUI are you using , is the rest API for CSI what you are referring to in this request ?