The feature request thread!!!

[stated]

I would like to see a feature where you can connect a device either Hard Drive, USB Hard Drive etc to the NAS and export data from one of the NAS shares directly onto the NTFS or FAT32 formatted drive.

This feature would be extremely useful from a product deployment view when you have to extract 800GB - 900GB of data to a portable device to be shipped out.

- This should be easy to implement, i use other NAS OS's that have similar abilities.

[stated]

I have found this feature to be an extremely useful device on our other NAS devices. File Manager right at the storage level that can do:

* Browsing directories; showing names, file sizes,
file types, modification times and permissions
* Copying, moving and deleting files
* Searching for files and directories
* Uploading and downloading files
* Editing text files
* Creating new files and directories
* Changing file permissions

I have used this feature on so many occasions on the Other OS we use i can't imagine what i would do without it - however DSS does not have this feature and i find the data hard to manage on our DSS devices.

Theres a project out there that these other OS's use http://quixplorer.sourceforge.net/
and i think Open-E should consider implementing this or a similar solution.

[stated]

I would also like to see a Dedicated RSYNC client on the NAS that performs all: Server, Client and Local functionality.

[Robotbeat]

Snapshot merging: Both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Fedora 13 and 14 support LVM snapshot merging (where an active snapshot can become the primary volume permanently). When is Open-E going to have this? This would make snapshots a far more useful feature.


Also, I really like the ability to start and stop snapshots through the API!

[jannypana]

the ability to lower the I/O priority for initializing a file i/o volume. Or, cancel the initialization.

[adamvh]

join the vsphere5 api storage programs.
focusing development on the vmware storage api's would be something I would like to see.
i'm going to say in they will be a major consideration in the future!

-VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
-VMware vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)

[lawe]

A better SMB / CIFS Support for Windows.

I want to use the Full Rights like Change, Visit etc. and not only the three SMB rights like read, write and execute...

[piotrp]

Wondering if it could be done:
Linux supports with mdadm growing of sw raid arrays. I can`t find it in open-e, there is only feature for adding a spare disk not growing the s/w array with that disk. I could create another RAID group and merge them with volume manager but I will lose space due to parity disk.

Linux supports multipathing (failover, multibus etc.) with FC initiators and dm-multipath. I wonder it could be added as many FC connections are done by fabric using many paths for redundancy and HA.
With DS4800 connected as target to the DSS with two paths I see one DS4800 LUN and one LUN with 0GB with "not supported" label. When I fail one of two redundant controllers drive 0GB disappears. When i unfail this controller, sometimes I get a message from DS4800 that DSS uses wrong path through bad controller, through not preferred path.
I think FC should be realy tuned.

Another my conception is to add a FlashCache support. SSD disks are much faster so caching data from SAS, SATA or FC disks on SSD drives should give a performance jump for performance demanding setups.

When i remove drive from RAID array physicaly with sw raid and again put the disk in I get "part of s/w raid" label and can only clean disk and need to reboot the DSS is bad... I should also have the ability to put this drive again in the same array without manual changes in DSS. Mdadm should support such a thing.

You may say who uses sw raid but using FC disks it is the best and cheapest way to go.

Also think about giving ppl access to root account from SSH with prompt and access to running their Linux commands.

I am really interested in that software so far testing it for two days.

[To-M]

Once the Volume Replication task is scheduled (if this is what you are talking about) can be viewed from Status > Tasks and can only be stopped but not changed unless you are wanting to stop and replicate the volume to a different system of same size volume on the Destination system.

[Remco87]

Hardware VSS provider functionality for use with Microsoft DPM to protect hyper-v guests would really lift open-e to the enterprise level we hoped to achieve with it.