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136 VOTE

Enhancement to DS8K's HMC power supply redundancy

We request more power paths for HMC of DS8K. My customer had the incident that two IO enclosures (#3 and #4) fail in DS8886 and both HMCs were cut off from the power path, making the HMCs unusable. As a result, logging and remote support could not...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 Delivered

Automated ODD generation in CSM, along with periodic cleanup based on a retention policy to prevent storage overrun

Background: I recently met with the Storage Infrastructure Head of a large Indian bank. During the discussion, the customer specifically asked whether DS8000 supports automatic ODD generation based on predefined thresholds or triggers at the time ...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

Safeguarded Snapshots in IBM Copy Services Manager for SV Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability

Please add native support in IBM Copy Services Manager to create safeguarded snapshots for Storage Virtualize Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability. Thank you for considering this enhancement! Virgil Balan Storage Administrat...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Delivered

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...
12 months ago in Storage Fusion Delivered
120 VOTE

Early warning when an ISP server certificate cert256.arm expires and a smooth method for renewing the certificate.

The server certificate cert256.arm (public key), expires after 10 years without warning. After that, access to the ISP server is no longer possible from one second to the next. The server must be stopped hard. A warning in the Actlog, e.g. three m...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered
462 VOTE

Add additional member to an existing V7000 array

The current Storawize V7000 code allows only to swap an array member with another drive. In an environment of increasing storage capacity, it would be desirable to extend an existing array by adding an additional drive (or multiple drives) to it a...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Provide RWX Block Storage for Kubevirt/Openshift Virtualization

Kubevirt (https://kubevirt.io/) hugely benefits from the fact that you can do a live migration (like a vmotion) from VMs in a Kubernetes Cluster.Since VMs are just pods these pods cannot be migrated, but need to be created and deleted. To achieve ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Volume and Host move between partitions (split partition)

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...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Support for Ubuntu 22.04

As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Delivered

IP Quorum for PBHA Rescan Automatic

IBM L3 told me this: When the application (IP Quorum) starts, it uses a configuration file that includes the management IPs of both systems but only the service IPs for the system where the app was created. If the app cannot contact the management...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

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