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Storage Scale System

    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...
    almost 2 years 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|...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Provide a command to set the "replace"-flag to disks in missing state, so a callhome is triggered.

    Disks in state "missing/drained" are not treated as replaceable disks by design, and so they do not trigger a call home. But because many of these disks are indeed broken, it would be useful if the administrator could run a command or use a GUI bu...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

    add option to only create gpfs.snap around a failed pdisk.

    currently when i create a snap with say --limit-large-files latest i get a 4GB snap from a single ESS3500 which takes way too long if i just want to report a failed disk to IBM support and they need a snap from the system to verify... please add a...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Support

    LLDP is a technology used in cloud and automation scenarios which assists with Layer2 link discovery. Its works by broadcasting additional metadata and information about each network link to the network switches allowing for automation to more eas...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Omnipath network support by Elastic Storage Server 3500/6000 (now called IBM Storage Scale System 3500)

    IDRIS is an Education and Research customer hosting on of the largest compute center in France for several research entities (CNRS, GENCI, ... : http://www.idris.fr/). They currently use a very large Spectrum Scale appliance configuration with Len...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Make snapshotting independent from the GUI

    We had now several times that on some volumes the snapshotting stopped.Without an alert.Support mentioned us that this is due to gpfsgui failure, and indeed restarting gpfsgui resumes the snapshot shedules. Honestly, I think that is bad software d...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    ECE cluster node replacement with different sized disks than original node

    If an existing ECE cluster has a NVMe tier (system pool, metadataAndData) consists of 12T SSD and a node replacement occurs with a node with 24T SSD How does ECE behave in this case? We are considering uplifting our NVMe tier to 24T SSDs, but need...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Report power redundancy failure on a ESS Data Server or ESS Protocol Node

    Currently, the GUI neither mmhealth report a power redundancy failure if power cord is unplugged or power is lost at one of the PSUs. The GUI uses ipmitool rvitals as an internal report were PSU appears as ok but PSU fan rpm are reduced. The GUI s...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

    mmvdisk - create vdiskset in system pool with DataOnly nsds.

    We have ess3500 hybrid model, we want to define NVME disks as MetaDataOnly, and NL-SAS disks as DataOnly in the same storage pool - system. Today mmvdisk does not allow it, but we can do it in Scale: [root@ems4 var]# mmvdisk vs define --vs vs_ESS4...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

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