IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Enable remote Clusters to connect at all local interfaces

    For security or performance reasons the network is divided into different zones, either to isolate different tenants or to separate different types of network traffic. To enable multitenancy, a Storage Scale Cluster should be able to serve multipl...
    2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Retention Sets and transitioning to new tape technology.

    Hello,There are customers who need to retain data for more than 10 years. However, a problem arises regarding technology lifecycles, as servers, disk arrays, and tape libraries are typically replaced every 5-10 years.Consequently, the customer fac...
    17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket

    A topic we discussed with the client was the ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket. This can be achieved with bucket policies. However, in Scale S3 we do not support the Condition clause of a bucket policy. The condition ...
    12 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot effeciency improvements

    The cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot requirements made economic sense in the past, before mmvdisk began enforcing a minimum of 4 vdisks per Data Adapter (DA) on SSD-based Recovery Groups (RGs). Currently, in a single ESS Building Block, depending ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Needs more information

    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...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Scale Storage Native Driver for Mainframe zOS

    We are trying to get access to the mainframe storage on the midrange end to allow Data and AI tools like Content Aware Storage and Watson Knowledge Catalog. Following are the gaps: 1. There is no native driver for zOS. Current support is limited t...
    4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Detailed information about a problematic inode

    “When we encounter an issue caused by or impacting a specific file which leads to deadlock conditions in the file locking functionality that scale supports the Scale development is able to provide us with an inode value after analysis of gpfs.snap...
    19 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Assigning less CES IPs than CES Nodes to a cluster should not throw a warning

    Hi! If you have multiple CES Nodes in a cluster but only one (or less CES IPs than CES Nodes) every CES Node, which does not have a IP assigned will throw the warning "ces_network_ips_down". This is very misleading, because the IPs aren't down on ...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    CNSA - support Kubernetes on Azure Linux

    IBM Storage Scale will be able to provide the high-performant, scalable, and highly-available storage subsystem to meet the I/O requirement for containerized AI workload running on large GPU clusters with Azure Linux.
    10 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Enable inline compression of files at ingestion for IBM Storage Scale

    Our client needs to have the option to compress some well-known files inline, at ingestion -first write- time. Their goal is to enable this compression on the gpfs clients. They use remote-mounts to connect to their gpfs filesystems (having ESS as...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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