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    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...
    almost 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...
    almost 5 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...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Not under 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...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Support simultanious integration of Storage Scale cluster to Windows AD Domain while Linux servers are joined to an IDM domain

    Protocol nodes can authorize user file access through Windows Active Directory by joining a Storage Scale cluster to a Windows Active Directory Domain. Unfortunately, IBM does not support such a connection if Storage Scale Linux servers are alread...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Include rpm package audispd-plugins into Storage Scale System bundle to improve audit logging capabilities.

    In an regulated environment it is required to configure several audit rules at OS level, to be compliant. To forward the resulting audit events to syslog, it is required to install the rpm package audisp-plugins, which is not part of the current I...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters - mmhealth

    Hi In order to minimize the risk of system down due to heat problem. It will be great if mmhealth will monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters. This can be done by running the following script: #!/bin/bashfor i in `lspci|grep -i mellanox|...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    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 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than

    Tram asked me to open RFE for Ford Hi Ron, Doug has asked if you can open a RPQ for IBM to support Mellanox version 5.3x in clients running with ESS at 4.9 or later i.e mixed OFED versions can be greater than -2Ford has opened a Mellanox ticket on...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    fuser is missing in ESS deployment on ESS3200

    opened corresponding issue No: 277001 customer needs fuser reason .. mmumounting file system may give you a hard time figuring out, who is using a mounted SG
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

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