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IBM Storage Deep Archive

Full Deep Archive administration via GUI

Current GUI is tech-preview only (no task detail, no performance graphs, no user/bucket creation); everything is CLI-only today
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Planned for future release

Scale GUI on Deep Archive

Expose the Scale GUI on Deep Archive to support monitoring, administration, and troubleshooting.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Submitted

Resynchronization mechanism for Multi-Library configurations

When a node fails on Diamondback deep archive in multlibrary configuration writes continue on the surviving node but within the same library (not across libraries as designed), and once the failed node returns, data isn't automatically resynced to...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Planned for future release

Quorum/Tiebreaker architecture flaw

On Multilibrary configuration the default config places 2 quorum nodes in Rack 1 and only 1 in Rack 2 — if Rack 1 goes down, Rack 2 loses quorum and requires manual intervention during DR. No customer-accessible way to fix this (root required).
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

Multilibrary configuration - CES/failover between clusters not working as required

Cluster 2 nodes are part of the internal Scale cluster but excluded from CES, so ingestion IP failover between racks doesn't happen automatically — a hard requirement for the customer's HA needs. Currently only achievable via manual workaround.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

IP/failover limitations

Only one ingestion IP is active by default across the 4-node Multi-Library cluster;
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

Fix the Hydra↔Deep Archive heartbeat/timeout process

Align timeout expectations with the cache/tape/restore-queue model and stop retaining unnecessary heartbeat files.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

support ssh key Authentication for login to Deep Archive

In the current version of Deep Archive a ssh login is only allowed with username and passwort interactive, there is no way to safe a key in DA to do an automated login to the system. For scripts this is a must have.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Submitted

Granular Restart of Deep Archive Components

Deep Archive currently provides the dacli node start ALL, dacli node stop ALL and dacli node restart ALL commands for restarting the software across the cluster (array of tape libraries). The use of ALL makes the operation inherently cluster-wide....
14 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Planned for future release

Support Expedited Retrieval in S3 RestoreObject

IBM Storage Deep Archive should support an Expedited Retrieval option. Some workflows occasionally need urgent access to archived content. Today the only way to guarantee fast access is to keep that content online, which defeats the purpose of arc...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Planned for future release