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Storage Scale System

Include more useful data into the Call home automatically collected data

Hello, I am exploring whether it will be possible to include more useful data and sufficient data into the FTDC data that is being collected upon call home creation. Currently the information within those files is pretty limited and not sufficient...
3 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

CES S3 Support for "Atomic Conditional Write" (compareAndSet)

The current CES S3 protocol does not support an S3 compareAndSet operation. This is a requirement for attaching ElasticStack to the CES S3 protocol nodes. Attachment of ElasticStack to IBM Storage Scale using CES S3 would enable ElasticStack to st...
19 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Add monitoring for the "phy error counters" that are currently displayed in the tssastools log, and which can only be verified via a snap

We've encountered several issues related to disk problems and crashes. After opening several cases, in one of them (TS022401811) , we have been notified about a significant increase in these counters. This problem wasn't being reported anywhere by...
11 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

IBM Storage Scale GUI emails notifications

Dear team, by a customer we have 12 IBM Storage scale subsystem 5149-F48 with 9 enclosures 5149-091, 10 5149-23E node and 1 5149-23E management node. On the management node we have installed the IBM Storage Scale GUI that have several possibility....
5 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration
210 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

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

REST API call for the "mmexpelnode -l" command

Hello. I suggest creating a REST API call equivalent to the "mmexpelnode -l" command. We monitor the environment via the REST API, and it would be useful to monitor the nodes that have been expelled from the cluster to trigger specific alerts for ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

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).
9 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 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...
11 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release