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Spectrum Symphony

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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
over 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.
over 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...
over 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...
over 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
about 6 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 6 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 6 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

[SMC][RFE][CA-CIB] - SMC - On GUI add role assignment for users

instead of using egosh role command, we would like to manage easily our user on SMC cluster PMR ID : TS000975161
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

TS000930539:

"Consumer1 executing on a host(with special resource attribute) is not reclaimed and rescheduled on another host when Consumer2, requiring that resource, request allocation. Consumer 1 doesn't have any resource preference, so the expectation was t...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration