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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

    Add snapshot information to mmrepquota

    mmrepquota would be more useful if it included the snapshot consumption for each fileset. This would make bill back, reporting, and growth forecasts much easier. mmrepquota only reports "live" usage for a fileset, but this hides how much "hidden" ...
    3 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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 ...
    12 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...
    20 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    为了提高产品的RAS（Reliability, Availability, Serviceability）客户建议做必要的重试： OS bootup ➔ GPFS daemon starts ➔ Join local cluster ➔ Mount remote file system ➔ Join remote cluster ➔ Join remote cluster failed (due to unexpected exception) ➔ Mount remote file system failed ➔ Wait/sleep xxx seconds ➔ Attempt to re-mount remote file system (automated retry loop)

    为了提高产品的RAS（Reliability, Availability, Serviceability）客户建议做必要的重试： OS bootup ➔ GPFS daemon starts ➔ Join local cluster ➔ Mount remote file system ➔ Join remote cluster ➔ Join remote cluster failed (due to unexpected exception) ➔ Mount remote file sy...
    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

    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...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Add Quiet mode in mmdsh to suppress ssh banner message

    when using mmdsh and running cluster level cmds, ssh banner messages are interfering in the outputs which is making mmdsh outputs difficult to read. need a ssh -q equalent in mmdsh to supress these banner messages which are sometime as big as half...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

    mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

    Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

    IAM user policies

    In AWS S3, it is common practice to grant bucket access via IAM user policies. This is often much simpler and more straightforward than using bucket policies. The necessary structures have already been added to the noobaa source project. https://g...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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