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Enhance the monitoring and reporting the internal RAID card's degradation

5148-22L's internal RAID card's degradation caused severe performance impact. However, its degradation was not monitored by HW&SW. Therefore, the user could not found this HW problem.ESS should be enhanced as monitoring the card and reporting ...
about 3 years ago in ESS 1 Planned for future release

Auto tuning in AFM of afmNumFlushThreads

Our organisation are extremely heavy users of the AFM technology atop GPFS/SpectrumScale. We host thousands of AFM file-sets inside GPFS filesystems. The nature of the utilisation of each fileset is almost completely unique and individual. The pro...
over 3 years ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

Enhanced admin security for ESS

Administrative access to ESS (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
over 3 years ago in ESS 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 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 ...
about 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...
over 5 years ago in ESS 1 Is a defect

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...
9 months ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

Add system node name to the description/title of any CSP ticket generated from a call home.

The overall request is to add the system node name of the originating device into the case description whenever a call home occurs that results in a case being opened. From the sample case the customer provided, the case description is “9100 DSK00...
over 1 year ago in ESS 1 Future consideration

You should be able to configure notification of user password expiration.

A frequent problem I have is that the ESS GUI user accounts expire and I have to get them reset. It would be useful if you could set up e-mail notifications that an account is about to expire. My organization does this .... when my password is wit...
over 1 year ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

ESS support RoCE lossy Network

ESS support RoCE over lossless setting by adapter and switch. But lossless network will limit the overall cluster size. We need ESS to support RoCE Lossy network. As we known, The full IB network has the best performance, followed by RoCE, and the...
about 2 years ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

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