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Show the real used capacity on vdisk in GUI

GUI shows the two values “real capacity” and “used capacity” in addition to the capacity with which a disk was created.For a thin-provisioned vdisk this two values are useless, if the capacity is shrinking (unmap from esx). For example an actual e...
about 5 hours ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
4 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Support NVIDIA Blackwell for Fusion HCI GPU node

We're now planning to build a platform business with major SIer vendors in Japan. We're planning to propose Fusion as their platform equipped with GPUs, but they requested us the latest model Blackwell is needed to expand their business into infor...
13 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

The run fix procedure schould check for all equal errors in one step

ease of use, faster checks. If we update the backend systems behind a SVC or flash system the recovery procedure does a cleanup only for one item at a time, so if you updated a bunch of systems behind a SVC, you have a minimum of two events in the...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Show Capacity Savings Total Provisioned Line only for vDisk assigned to a host

On the FS or SVC Dashboard the total provision value is the value in all vDisk. If attached behind a SVC, there are normally provisioned but not assigned vDisk to fill up the entire space. That leads into a missunderstanding on the dashboard.
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Configuration of NTP must be done using NTP-SHA2 algorithm using symmetric key

RBI has brought a notice to banks in India for below: Observation details & Manner of Compliance: Observation as per the report 3.9.15 - 'Stratum' Network Time Protocol (NTP) solution used by the bank for NTP synchronization configured with NT...
4 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Volume and Host move between Partitions on Flashsystem

We need the possibility to move volumes/LUNs and Hosts between partitions on the same system. The current Partition Design is very static and gives limited flexibility. This feature can be relevant if you want to split your current volume/LUN/host...
11 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Under review

Upgrades should create svcconfig backups and copy them to each node

Currently, we run the following prior to upgrades, incase there is an issue: svcconfig backupCFG_ENCL=`lsnodecanister -delim : -nohdr -filtervalue config_node=yes | cut -d: -f14`for ENCL in `lsnodecanister -nohdr -delim : -filtervalue config_node=...
about 1 hour ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Ability to rename a partition.

Once a Partition exists, it is not possible to change the name, while the partition name is based on hardware, applications, hosts (or combination).This can change over time and then it is more than desirable to be able to change this.
about 5 hours ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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