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Storage Scale System

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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).
about 23 hours ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

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...
8 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...
20 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...
29 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

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 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

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4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Not under consideration

Help required for closing discovered vulnerabilities for SSS3500 storage - Group 5 -Security Settings & Install Updates, Patches and Additional Security Software

Our TEL team is working with Customer State Bank of India to operationalise one new SSS 3500 that we sold to customer to replace the existing Gen2 GLS2 SSS Storage. As part of the internal security practices the State Bank of India runs their own ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

Help required for closing discovered vulnerabilities for SSS3500 storage - Group 4 -User Account and Environment & Pam & Encryption

Our TEL team is working with Customer State Bank of India to operationalise one new SSS 3500 that we sold to customer to replace the existing Gen2 GLS2 SSS Storage. As part of the internal security practices the State Bank of India runs their own ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

Help required for closing discovered vulnerabilities for SSS3500 storage - Group 3 -Configure System Accounting & Uncommon Network Protocols

Our TEL team is working with Customer State Bank of India to operationalise one new SSS 3500 that we sold to customer to replace the existing Gen2 GLS2 SSS Storage. As part of the internal security practices the State Bank of India runs their own ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

Help required for closing discovered vulnerabilities for SSS3500 storage - Group 2 - Network Configuration & Firewalls & Access Control

Our TEL team is working with Customer State Bank of India to operationalise one new SSS 3500 that we sold to customer to replace the existing Gen2 GLS2 SSS Storage. As part of the internal security practices the State Bank of India runs their own ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release