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ESS Management Switch monitoring feature request

We value the IBM turnkey appliance and support; however, we would like a way to monitor the IBM provided ESS management switches via ESS (GUI and/ore Alerting).
20 days ago in Storage Scale System 1 Submitted
210 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

Sign kernel modules and enable secure boot on ESS

ESS updates are delivered as a set of components already tested together, but are still building kernel modules locally during the upgrade. This wastes time (building modules takes a lot of time), and makes it impossible to enable secure boot. Sin...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

Make snapshotting independent from the GUI

We had now several times that on some volumes the snapshotting stopped.Without an alert.Support mentioned us that this is due to gpfsgui failure, and indeed restarting gpfsgui resumes the snapshot shedules. Honestly, I think that is bad software d...
11 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

Implementation of DIMM error checking at IBM Storage Scale Systems

It would be helpful to implement an DIMM error checking, which is raising a warning, when a memory DIMM is throwing to much errors.In the current ESS versions, we don't have such an checking in place. Massive recoverable DIMM errors will not be re...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

SED support using TPM on ESS3500

We are requesting the addition of "SED support for TPM" to be included on the ESS3500 platform. This will provide the necessary encryption and simplify and streamline the installation and maintenance of the combined cluster including the ESS3500/S...
7 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

ECE cluster node replacement with different sized disks than original node

If an existing ECE cluster has a NVMe tier (system pool, metadataAndData) consists of 12T SSD and a node replacement occurs with a node with 24T SSD How does ECE behave in this case? We are considering uplifting our NVMe tier to 24T SSDs, but need...
17 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Requirement for LDAPS (secure LDAP) support

Since 2020 Microsoft has been actively pushing for adoption of LDAPS (LDAP over SSL/TLS) for security hardening of Active Directory Cloud and on-premise environments. Therefore, products to maintain supported access will need to support LDAPS. Cus...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

mmvdisk - create vdiskset in system pool with DataOnly nsds.

We have ess3500 hybrid model, we want to define NVME disks as MetaDataOnly, and NL-SAS disks as DataOnly in the same storage pool - system. Today mmvdisk does not allow it, but we can do it in Scale: [root@ems4 var]# mmvdisk vs define --vs vs_ESS4...
27 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Tunable options to reduce failover time of ESS when one of the IO servers fails

In 1H 2020, Korea team has made significant growth in ESS business. However it is noteworthy that business of our competitors have grown together. This is the evidence that market for fie storage is growing. Therefore it is strategically important...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration