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    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 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 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...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Request for extra RHEL8 packages in ESS

    We have a list of OS packages that we would love to have included in ESS 6.x.x.x, now that we no longer can install any RHEL package like we could in ESS v5. Inclusion of any of the below packages is helpful for us, if you say no to some packages ...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Bind DNS out of date software version

    Agency is required to update to the current stable versions of BIND DNS. Internet Systems Consortium no longer issues security updates for out-of-date versions of BIND DNS.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

    De-couple CES NFS and SMB services

    From support: You can stop NFS service without stop SMB. But if you want stop SMB service, you need stop NFS first. We need to stop all access to AFM collections but still need to serve non-AFM NFS to our cluster. Easiest would be to only shutdown...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

    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...
    21 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

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

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

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    6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Not under consideration

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