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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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    Improvement of modifying NFSv4 ACLs

    Hi,modifications on NFSv4 ACLs are very slow, especially if one modify pathes recursively with many files and subfolders (this could takes days on our system!). E.g. to add an additional ACL to a tree one has to read first the ACLs from the file b...
    2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhancing gpfs.snap for Hadoop Cases to Improve RCA and Reduce MTTR

    The gpfs.snap -hadoop command is part of the process for opening Hadoop-related cases. In many instances, IBM development requests additional Java diagnostics that are no longer available during RCA. Incorporating relevant Java troubleshooting out...
    3 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enable custom certificates for Storage Scale CNSA GUI on OpenShift

    We have to secure all Web GUIs with custom certificates from our In House CA. In detail we need the ibm-spectrum-scale-gui route from the ibm-spectrum-scale namespace to be secured by a custom certificate.
    30 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    CNSA Support for Hosted control planes (HCP)

    Hosted control planes (HCP) are becoming more and more popular to consolidate multiple Openshift Cluster. It centralizes the cluster management and add security advantages. As we move towards HCP cluster, it is important to have CNSA supported for...
    17 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...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Increase fileset limit

    The current limits on number of filesets for a Storage Scale file system are: Maximum number of independent filesets per file system: 3000 Maximum number of AFM filesets per file system: 1500 Maximum number of filesets (dependent + independent) pe...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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 ...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Needs more information

    SMB - implement expiry date on user / groups information

    when a user first time authenticates to AD server, winbind stores all the group info in samlogon cache. Unless user re-authenticates or cache is removed, user's group data is taken from cache and not from AD. But it happens every now and then that...
    9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    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...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

    Identify nodes having open files which blocks quiesce file system/filesets

    We had the situation that the unlink fileset command failed: [root@xstm-d07-01 samples]# mmunlinkfileset exa_project1 training2601 -f Unable to quiesce fileset at all nodes. Fileset training2601 has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. mmunlink...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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