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Storage Scale System

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

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

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
2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

CAS GPU Server to support H200 GPU card

Allow customer to customize the GPU card with H200 in addition to RTX Pro 6000. Allow customer to use the GPU server to build custom AI Data Platform such as generic K8s platform with GPU card for generic AI training and inferencing workload.
3 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

Adding Quorum-Buster Node support in essrun cluster cmd

For HA we use currently in all Scale and Scale-System-Cluster a 3 side topology, one ems, n x io-node in two side and a third quorum Node as Tiebraker Node. The current essrun has currently no possibility to add these for the Quorum Managment and ...
3 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

ENABLE CONDITIONAL-BASED ENUMERATION ON THE ROOT SHARE FOLDER

Hello team, one of our customers uses Storage Scale for their main file server They access it via SMB and they have requested for the ability to hide the shares/exports from a user that does not have access to them For example, lets say the root s...
3 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 2 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...
10 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

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
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

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