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add the server certificates and key database to the prepare plan file

To recover a Storage Protect server 5 files need to be backed up via some customer process separate from the Storage Protect tools. Creating a reliable workflow to protect these crucial files can be prone to error and thus to a failure of the abil...
about 17 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Reduce or eliminate cluster-wide NFS grace period impact during Ganesha/CES node restart

In Storage Scale CES NFS environments, restarting a single Ganesha/CES node triggers an approximately 90-second NFS grace period that impacts client I/O across the NFS service. For high-availability environments, a single gateway node restart shou...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

support of IBM COS Onprem Container mode with Object Lock in SP

Currently, only vault mode with Protectected Vault retention is supported. We need support for container mode to enable governance or compliance mode on SP immutable backups
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

The GPFS GUI uses Swagger, which has security vulnerability issues. We request support to disable the Swagger-related pages.

Some customers have strict requirements regarding security vulnerabilities, so we need to disable it.
2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Proxmox Integration with IBM Fusion

Target Customer Profile This solution is best positioned for smaller private market organizations that typically have: 25–500 virtual machines 1–10 IT infrastructure administrators Limited virtualization expertise Budget constraints Aging VMware e...
3 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

VM backups getting backed up as datamover filespaces instead of using ASNODENAME -> TS018892184 - dfwtsmprod: TDP4VE backups running with DM name instead of ASnode name which is not supposed to.

This will avoid duplicate backups on data mover node. When this happens full backup start for all VM as they now store data in data mover node. Admins then have to clear data manually from datamover node as function of datamover is only to send da...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

CSI driver with RWX permission

we have a large VMware environment that uses an IBM FS7300 storage system as the primary storage for virtual machines. We have recently started using Kubernetes together with Persistent Volumes. However, the native CSI driver only supports RWO (Re...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

gpfs_prealloc() support to preallocate any bytes of an new created file without zero-out data

Most of recent AI workload saves raw data in cloud object storage. When GPU is going to training partial of raw data, these data will be loaded and saved in high performance file system, such as Storage Scale. In ADAS and some of other AI worklo...
8 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Data security with AI

Data security with AI controlling and update in your data real time and security provided in your system.
8 days ago in Storage Discover Submitted

Tiering Object Client Data from a Directory Container Storage Pool (Standard Pool) to Tape

Currently, IBM Storage Protect allows object client data to be moved to tape only when it resides in a cold storage pool(using the S3 Glacier storage class). There is no supported method to migrate object client data directly from a Directory Cont...
9 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

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