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Provide a command to set the "replace"-flag to disks in missing state, so a callhome is triggered.

Disks in state "missing/drained" are not treated as replaceable disks by design, and so they do not trigger a call home. But because many of these disks are indeed broken, it would be useful if the administrator could run a command or use a GUI bu...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

Report power redundancy failure on a ESS Data Server or ESS Protocol Node

Currently, the GUI neither mmhealth report a power redundancy failure if power cord is unplugged or power is lost at one of the PSUs. The GUI uses ipmitool rvitals as an internal report were PSU appears as ok but PSU fan rpm are reduced. The GUI s...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

ESS K8S CSI Should Have GPFS Node Health Sanity Checking

The IBM Spectrum Scale CSI Driver does not do any sanity checking with regard to the GPFS remote cluster status of the K8S node it is running on. The CSI driver should not allow the K8S scheduler to schedule any pods that require ESS storage on th...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Include disk topology alerts in ESS gui

We recently had a SAS cable go bad on an ESS system. While gnrhealthcheck clearly showed there was a problem, there was no indication in the gui that anything was wrong. According to IBM support, this is a known issue. It would be helpful if the g...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

ESS Support VDC 270 Power input

For higher energy conversion efficiency, the datacentor is constructed with dual DC power inputs. Doing so is more environmentally friendly and reduces carbon emissions. Our datacentor construction is all dual-channel high-voltage DC, and will con...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

Add non root access to ESS nodes with AD authentication

This RFE is to request the ability for adding non-root user ids to the ESS systems with authentication such as external AD. The current options are: 1) sudo wrappers using the following procedure on page 80 : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgec...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

Ship ESS Bundles with full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repo

ESS Bundles currently ship with a crippled set of RPMs from the RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. We want that the ESS Bundles are ship with the full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. Please revert back to what you've initially done with GSS and shi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

CallHome feature add to use SMTP in addition to HTTPS

System: ESS EMS node models: 5148-21L 5105-22E Actor: Client needing additional CallHome feature ESS EMS node is a mandatory component of ESS building blocks. CallHome is currently supporting HTTPs protocol through internet via proxy server. Clien...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under consideration

Disable Simultaneous sessions of same user on ESS GUI

Same user is able to open multiple sessions on ESS GUI with different browsers /different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user. This is one of the security observations from the customer's security auditor...
12 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Switch management

When we deliver switches with the ESS, it's a pain that these don't come with management configured. Getting the hw technician to connect to a serial port to do initial configuration, and then connect it to a network is very cumbersome.. especiall...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

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