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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...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Support routed networks for management and fsp networks

    ESS documentation states that the FSP and Management networks for a stretched cluster has to be: All networks are flat, single namespace (ESS stretch cluster requirements) which I interpret to mean they must be same subnet, not routed. Practically...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Support for symbolic links at CESS3/noobaa buckets

    To support a seamless migration from swift to CESS3/noobaa it is required to use symbolic links to the bucket directory. Nobbaa has already the parameter config.NSFS_CHECK_BUCKET_BOUNDARIES at the configuration file /usr/local/noobaa-core/config.j...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Spectrum Scale / ESS soft lockup issue

    I need help on this requirements for the system using Power9 AC922 servers and ESS 3000 storages. The customer has faced soft lockup issues with their applications running on AC922 which Spectrum Scale client runs on as well. They are definitely t...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

    ESS call home for disk failures should include the RG\disk name in the IBM case title

    In ESS call home for disk failures, when a case is created the case title is very generic and reports an error number 'Error Code: DSK00001'. Problem The challenge is that when disks fail, it is difficult to relate a specific disk failure to an IB...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    IBM needs policies to exclude specific data from creation and deletion scheduling for Storage Scale

    General Motors is using the GUI for basic creation and deletion scheduling, but they have written manual scripts to exclude specific data. In our architecture, when a snapshot of a complete filesystem is taken, it automatically snapshots every fil...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    The ability to see snapshot size in WebUI

    To give a quick overview of the change rate in a file set and of course see the size of the snapshot
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    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 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    ESS should be able to notify customers if there is filesystem corruption (currently they can't in their default configuration).

    There is NOTHING worse than undetected filesystem corruption in a storage system. But, as shipped to customers, all ESS storage systems will NOT notify you if there is filesystem corruption. They can _detect_ it, but they can't notify the customer...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    For ESS: Add additional packages to the "slim repos" that allow for the customer to install Tuxera Fusion SMB on ESS6000 CES VMs

    For ESS: Add additional packages to the "slim repos" that allow for the customer to install Tuxera Fusion SMB on ESS6000 CES VMs
    4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

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