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    Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

    IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
    8 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Increase REST API max requests per second limit

    The limit is currently 3 requests per second. For clients with more than a couple environments running concurrently (snapshots, replication changes) this results in significant delays or even failures when using the REST API's.
    28 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Submitted

    More focus on stretched Scale for HA with Fusion HCI

    I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: A stretched OpenShift cluster (2AZ+Arbiter) over two sites (Fusion HCI/site) where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using fa...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    More focus on stretched Scale for DR with Fusion HCI

    I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: Two separate OpenShift clusters (DR), one/site where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using failure groups.
    about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    3rd Party storage, support and validation

    We should validate and claim support for 3rd party remote storage such as that of DELL, Pure, NetApp. This was we can set our foot into the door of customers who have already and established relationship with their storage vendors. Technically wit...
    about 3 hours ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter

    Many clients at Middle East have only 2 sites as Prod and DR. They meet requirement of <10ms RTT latency between sites. They'd like to run HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter on Fusion HCI system. RH was not supporting running HCP control plane on base cluster ...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Restrict Critical Actions in AOS (Assist On-Site) Even for Root Users

    Summary: Implement safeguards in AOS to prevent root users from executing high-risk actions—specifically system shutdowns and core configuration changes—without additional authorization. To perform a shutdown, two independent authorizations must b...
    19 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    export/import for host configurations

    The existing feature to export and import a system's configuration does not include hosts. A feature to export all hosts (including their WWPNs) and import them on another system/cluster would be very helpful.
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Spectrum Protect for ERP should support HANA 2.0 SP08

    We are currently running SP for ERP 8.1.11, which supports SAP HANA 2.0 up to SP7. Our customer (and HANA support) wants to install SAP HANA 2.0 SP8, but we heard this is not supported with SP for ERP SAP HANA 8.1.11. Our SAP colleagues told us, t...
    27 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Submitted

    Installation of DSCLI with all Java Versions

    Manual "DS8 Command-Line Users Guide":Java Platform (Java 8 or later) must be installed on your system. The installation program checks for this requirement during installation and does not install the DS CLI if you do not have Java Platform, Ente...
    8 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

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