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Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)

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mmdsh rest api command

With the transition from ssh-based commanding to the Rest API, the functionality of mmdsh needs to be maintained. Currently, this command's functionality will no longer be supported once a cluster is migrated off of ssh-based communications. Many ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Add filter to FAL (File Audit Log), so it's possible to ignor specific events

When FAL is enabled, it's all or nothing. When enabled in a bussy enviroemnt the number of events is high. It will be possitive if it was possible to ignoge specific events (ex. directory list) so the number of events could drop in number
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

IPv6 Support for Scale HDFS Transparency

Add IPv6 Support for Scale HDFS Transparency, currently only IPv4 supported.
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Scale CSI & CNSA should be package with base scale distribution

IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver and IBM Storage Scale Container Native are add-on interfaces that are included in the base licensing for IBM Storage Scale. They are currently only available via external repositories that requi...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

CES S3 - Support for AWS-S3 API Object Lock

The current version of Scale doesn't support all AWS-S3 API commands and one of the major one is Object Lock. Most of the application using S3 data repository are able to secure data through Object Lock Feature and this becomes a requirement for c...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

AFM Local Filesystem Caching Support

Allow AFM to cache data from a "home" of a local filesystem mounted on a node. This could be a local filesystem on a single node or a shared filesystem such as HDFS fuse mounted or other mounted POSIX filesystem such as a Lustre/ZFS/XFS/etc...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Preview of mmreclaimspace for a determinate threshold

The idea is to have a preview of the mmreclaimspace without actually running it to have an idea of how much space will be recovered by a certain threshold. This can be interesting due to the lower the threshold is, the more impacte in performance ...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Include IBM Spectrum Scale Bridge for Grafana in the Storage Scale DAE release

The Grafana bridge feature is very useful in determining overall Filesystem usage and performance metrics. Currently the incorporated Storage Scale GUI does not provide the same level of client filesystem utilization, this is where the Bridge for ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Update the mmexpelnode command to accept a nodelist file for the "-N" option

During file system issues in a NSD Server Cluster it is sometimes required to expel all nodes from remote clusters so that file system recovery can be preformed. Shutting down or stopping GPFS on remote clusters takes too much time with very large...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Update the mmexpelnode command to have a "-C <remote cluster>" option to expel all nodes from a remote cluster

During file system issues in a NSD Server Cluster it is sometimes required to expel all nodes from remote clusters so that file system recovery can be preformed. Shutting down or stopping GPFS on remote clusters takes too much time with very large...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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