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Scale System HashiCorp Self Encrypting Drive Support

Add Self Encrypting Drive Support for HashiCorp Vault
about 6 hours ago in ESS 0 Submitted

CNSA Support for Per-PV Encryption

Add support for Scale CNSA to provide per-PV encryption allowing for each PV to use its own encryption key from GKLM or HashiCorp Vault. This would be configured as part of the encryption config CR for the PVC. Allow for each fileset associated wi...
about 6 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

CNSA HashiCorp Vault Encryption Key Server Support

Add support in CNSA for using HashiCorp Vault encryption key server with Scale CNSA. Currently supported in normal Scale but not in CNSA.
about 6 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

ESS release note includes OS package list

ESS release note includes OS package list. Currently OS image in ESS package is "cut-down" version in order to reduce its size. Our customer has upgraded legacy ESS to 6.1.2.7 then 6.1.2.8 . Every time, ESS upgrade process is suspended because of ...
about 14 hours ago in ESS 0 Submitted

dsmc backup image shall support HACMP filesystems

When you have large filesystems with 100 milliions of files the normal TSM client is not usefull for doing daily incremental backup. Even with the journal based backup this is not applicable. You can use the dsmc backup image command. But if the f...
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

Add Ansible for SLES at Scale Toolkit packaging

As known, Ansible is required for Scale Toolkit. The installation of Ansible is done through pip3 install and it connects to a repository to install Ansible. Some clients, special in financial sector, have restrictions to make their servers with e...
2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Fusion Backup - Support Entra ID or shared access signatures (SAS) for Azure Blob

Currently, Fusion support Azure Blob as a storage location using the account name and key as described here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion-software/2.7.x?topic=locations-adding-backup-storage-location This approach is contrary to reco...
4 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Show a User-Defined Instance name at the top of every CSM GUI page

Many clients have multiple CSM instances in their environment for Active and Standby servers plus multiple instances of servers for different workloads or different storage systems. It can get confusing when an admin needs to manage systems runnin...
7 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

LWORM immutability

why is it useful? append is still a change, closer to an air gap solution who would benefit? Sheltered Harbor and applications seeking to create immutable copies on tape using LWORM how should it work? A global parm to allow or not allow a tape da...
7 days ago in IBM TS7700 0 Planned for future release

Fusion restore target can use GIU/UID difference than source

Fusion restore service will be able to restore a project namespace using a new set of GID/UID that may be different than the GID/UID used in the source. This can be useful in the event that the original GID/UID are already in use in the target clu...
9 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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