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RELATED IDEAS

Enclosure names for ESS6000 are inconsistent with pdisk names

On an ESS6000 and ESS3500 hybrid systems, the enclosure names are inconsistent with the names generated by the system.

Assume you have a systems with nine enclosures, the bottom enclosure is named enclosure 1, the next one up is enclosure 2, and so on up to enclosure 9 located directly under the ESS6000 head node.

The ESS6000 head node contains between 4 and 48 NVMe drives.

The pdisks however get named e1s## for the head node, e2s## for enclosure 1, up to e10s## for enclosure 9.  ( Also notice the lack of leading zeros make the pdisk names different lengths. )

This is confusing to both customers and the CSR when a disk replacement occurs, pdisk e8s24 implies that slot 24 in enclosure 8 needs to be replaced, but really it is enclosure 7.

Solution, start by numbering the headnode drives as enclosure 0.

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