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Support Fibre Channel (FC) adapters on Fusion HCI for SAN connectivity

With Fusion HCI Control Tower and ability to created Hosted Clusters, there is a demand from customers to connect their existing SAN storage using CSI drivers. Therefore, we need Fusion HCI baremetal nodes to support FC cards - 32Gbps dual-port Em...
5 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Request for Product Qualification: DAR Encryption External Key Manager for Jack Henry

Customer is migrating their enterprise to Fortanix DSM 4.23+. They are shutting down their existing EKM's. All data center assets need to utilize Fortanix DSM for centralized, separation of duties, EKM management. Jack Henry current DS8 systems: D...
9 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Query for bitmap increment status

During a configuration change from H3->H1->H2 to H1->H2->H3, running the start H1->H2->H3 command may result in an unexpected full copy from H2 to H3 instead of a quick resync (for example, when z/OS systems were down after rolli...
10 days ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

IBM Storage Fusion Data Catalog Service - Integration with LDAP for group discovery

Today Fusion Data Catalog can only discover user accounts that have a profile in the storage array, which means that accounts that are part of a LDAP group or similar Auth Group, are unable to be identified and grouped together to provide a inform...
12 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Fusion Data Catalog - support for show back / charge back cost analysis

Fusion Data Catalog already provides the ability to show how much capacity is consumed / used by a user or a group within a storage system. being able to add the ability to define the cost per storage tier for storage systems that are being monito...
12 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Post activity tasks after Fusion backup completion

Customers are integrating Fusion backup restore for OpenShift workloads with Data Protect. As part of the process they want to send backups to Data Protect S3 view which is supported. They want to leverage the immutable capabilities of Data Protec...
17 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add metadata entry to a file to be able to know when it was last recalled

This would make ik possible to leave a file premigrated for a defined time period.
23 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

The run fix procedure schould check for all equal errors in one step

ease of use, faster checks. If we update the backend systems behind a SVC or flash system the recovery procedure does a cleanup only for one item at a time, so if you updated a bunch of systems behind a SVC, you have a minimum of two events in the...
27 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Show Capacity Savings Total Provisioned Line only for vDisk assigned to a host

On the FS or SVC Dashboard the total provision value is the value in all vDisk. If attached behind a SVC, there are normally provisioned but not assigned vDisk to fill up the entire space. That leads into a missunderstanding on the dashboard.
27 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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