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De-couple CES NFS and SMB services

From support: You can stop NFS service without stop SMB. But if you want stop SMB service, you need stop NFS first. We need to stop all access to AFM collections but still need to serve non-AFM NFS to our cluster. Easiest would be to only shutdown...
over 3 years ago in ESS 2 Not under consideration

RFE 145037: Support of mixed R&S Subenclosure configuration

Based on RFE ID 129266 ( Support of R&S Subenclosure) Additional support for the following setups: 2u24-84:SPYCERNODE-2U24 + SPYCERNODE-5U84-EBD 2u24-8484:SPYCERNODE-2U24 + SPYCERNODE-5U84-EBD + SPYCERNODE-5U84-EBD
over 3 years ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

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 3 years ago in ESS 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...
almost 4 years ago in ESS 1 Future consideration

ESS and Spectrum Scale GUI display min/max performance statistics

Clients have a meeting with Markus R. for the feedback on the GUI, statistics charting and REST interface on Feb 13, 2020. One key requirement is to display the aggregation of performance statistics to track spikes bykeeping min/max values and not...
over 4 years ago in ESS 1 Not under consideration

Integrate AD for user authentication in ESS

Currently the Storage Team uses root to log into the ESS I/O nodes and EMS but it would be nice to set them to integrate with Active Directory for non-root users. We assume other customers use AD for authentication on their EMS and I/O nodes.
over 4 years ago in ESS 1 Not under consideration

event filtering function on snmp trap in ESS

In ESS/Spectrum Scale GUI, there isn't any option to select the Severity of SNMP event message.
over 4 years ago in ESS 1 Not under consideration

lift the SUDO wrappers limitations

Allianz is requesting from IBM ESS product the following a) lift the SUDO wrappers limitations outlined in following statementsSudo wrappers are not supported on clusters where one or more of the nodes is running the Windows operating system.Sudo ...
over 5 years ago in ESS 1 Future consideration

ESS GL6s RG failover take more than 5 minutes

When customer does final ESS GL6s acceptance test, they power off one of ESS I/O node, find that RG failover take more than 5 minutes which is longer than expected.Customer want to know what's the major bottle neck and enhance the whole RG failove...
almost 6 years ago in ESS 1 Is a defect