Thanks for posting the link.  I will download and let you know how it works.

Bren

Happy to hear folks are liking System Manager.

As noted, this release has just a few bug fixes and relaxes the prior platform restrictions.

Before too long, we should have another point release with a few more features and additional fixes.

Steve

I'll admit that I've been very pleasantly surprised by how solid version 1.0 was.....I'm usually not a version .0 kind of person (a lesson I've learned painfully ).

Ah...thanks for the note/update....missed that post (have been hanging on by my fingertips recently).

Hmmm.....I've just installed 1.0.1 over 1.0 without any issues actually....

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Edit: ok...I must be remembering incorrectly -- I just tried this on an existing box and it's requiring me to remove System Manager 1.0. Programs that require this kind of thing are a pet peeve of mine actually....would be great if the installer could either just run over top or offer to uninstall the old version automatically before installing the newer version.

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If you've got 1.0 installed, you need to un-install it and then install 1.0.1.

Apologies for that - engineering team wasn't able to devote resources to making the upgrade smoother.  The upgrade to 1.1 will be easier.

Steve

> Is the persistency of the storage controllers expected?

Yes, at least that part works

In brief, the installer removes/updates files that are part of the installation, but leaves other files intact.

The list of controllers is created independently of the install, so those hang around even after uninstall/install.

So it's a side effect, but in this case it's a helpful one.

Steve

Hi,

Just wanted to say we're very happy with System Manager...its such an improvement over FilerView. I hope a lot of effort continues going into developing & improving it...

As we use it frequently, I do have a few suggestions for improvements/feature requests:

1.) Performance -- it seems like the app calls to the filer every time I do something. For instance, when I open aggregates it has to query for all the disk info. For an 80 disk aggregate this takes maybe 4 or 5 seconds during which time I can't do anything (hourglass icon). If I click volumes and then come back to aggregates it does this again. So it seems like NSM is constantly querying live to the filers for info. Can't it cache some of this to speed up responsiveness? Maybe store some of this info in a small local database so it can read it locally and update periodically.

2.) Add a 'Used Space' column in volumes view. This data is in the Aggregate space breakout..it would be nice to have it in the volume list too.

3.) Add the ability to add, remove, customize or move around columns.

4.) Add a FILTER or SEARCH capability -- when I'm in volumes it would be nice to search and only show volumes with "ESX" in the name... or only show me volumes that are > 90% used... or only show me volumes in specified aggregate.

5.) Add a column under LUN Management view to show which igroup each LUN is mapped to -- the way like it's displayed in FilerView.

6.) Add some kind of view for igroups to show all assigned LUN IDs. When creating a LUN it can sometimes be a chore to figure out what the next available LUN # is.

7.) Add the ability to select multiple volumes and apply certain settings (Space, Auto size, Dedupe and Advanced tab settings).

We use System Manager a lot and I think these would be very useful features/enhancements.

-Brian