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Spectrum Symphony

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[Support Matrix] Matrix - Oracle Standard Edition support for Symphony 6.1.1

We changed the Oracle support policy from v6.1.1 and it make customer hard now.Symphony v6.1.1 support only Oracle Enterprise edition.It is barrier for customer to upgrade Symphony now. Old version Symphony (v6.1.0.1, v5.x) supported Oracle and it...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[CE] Platform Symphony Management GUI - Solaris Sparc - BBK

We use a Symphony Version 5.0 in a pure Solaris 10 Sparc 64 bit Infrastructure including the Platform Management Console GUI. All used servers are based on Solaris Sparc architectureThe Symphony Grid infrastructure is implemented in two regions --...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

non-root user should work with Gridsync (RSA)

RSA service is started as non-root user in our env. This make gridsync does not work as expect when the dataset is not owned by the execution user of RSA
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Not under consideration

HF requestor goes with session Type

Currently "startup_cores_if_no_history" go with application. We request it can go with session. In fact, if requestors can set based on session type, that will be great.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Not under consideration

Automatically migrate the management-host when the management-host has insufficient resource

Anthony, We have more applications in our Platform Symphony 7.2 cluster and we observe the following failures from time to time when the cluster is busy. Caused by: com.platform.symphony.soam.SoamException: Domain :A new connection with ID 3826091...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

Backport .NET Core API Support to Symphony 7.1.1

Some of our customers would like to use the Symphony .NET Core service API. The specific DLL they need is Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll.But it seems like the drivers exist only for Symphony 7.2.1.1, which is not the version we use currentl...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

sym7202 HF - return host with MDS Plan

The requestor script only considers slots for returning hosts. It doesn't consider MDS allocation
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

Flops unit on compute

Add Flops unit of compute on Symphony and Multi-Cluster in addition of CPU unit. Add this metric capacity on host information and on the resource plan.More over it'll be very interesting for Cloud computing.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

User-based scheduling policy by SSM

Add a new scheduling policy to consider resources a user used and make it fair among users. We could call it user-based (fair share) scheduling policy. For example, for N users that has active sessions, each user can only get 1/N of total allocate...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Retry to start SD on a different host

ESC_SERVICE_START_FAIL_RETRY parameter helps to retry to restart services but if a host is experiencing problem, it will run out of retry limit then move service to Error status. There should be a option to try to startup EGO service, for example ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration