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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 12, 2025

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Protocols - S3 Glacier for Storage Protect managed tape libraries

It seems the feature has been implemented in NooBaa, but Storage Scale still does not officially support the S3 Glacier feature.

Without S3 Glacier support, S3 users have no idea that their data has been migrated. This creates challenges for system administrators, who must implement transparent recall mechanisms while doing their best to prevent recall storms.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Oct 13, 2025

    Hello,

    I believe the most appropriate approach would be to allow defining the Storage Pool according to the desired storage tier — for example: Standard, Premium, Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive, and so on.

    Some of these tiers could be specifically configured with the retrieve option, similar to the S3 Glacier behavior, ensuring a transparent recall process for archived data.

    We currently have demands exceeding 4 PB of data intended for Storage Archive, but without this functionality, system administration becomes significantly more complex.

    Considering how IBM Storage Scale operates and its multi-tier data management model, implementing such functionality for S3 would be essential to optimize both operations and management of large-scale data in hybrid environments.

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  • Guest
    Jun 17, 2025
    Which software do you plan to use to integrate tape libraries into the Storage Scale filesystem?
    1 reply
  • Guest
    Jun 17, 2025
    What storage do you envision to use cold storage tier, e.g., tape library, object storage?
    1 reply
  • Guest
    Jun 12, 2025

    It would be very convenient if the following option were available, even though I understand it is not compatible with the S3 standard:

    Files in the migrated state could automatically have the extended attribute { user.storage_class:   "GLACIER" }.

    Files in the premigrated or resident state could automatically have the extended attribute { user.storage_class:   "STANDARD" }.

    At this point, the put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration feature is not essential for my use case.

     

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