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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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Real time ransomware detection for IBM Storage Scale file systems and filesets

IBM Storage Scale environment we need the capability for real-time ransomware detection. We use immutable snapshots for file systems and fileset already. Real-time ransomware detection gives us the ability to determine the last good immutable snap...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Needs more information

Change behaviour of "move nodedata" command so that when the destination storage pool has a copy storage pool setup data is moved to both primary and copy storage pools

Being able to "move nodedata" to both a destination storage pool and its copy storage pool would be useful to maintain at least to copies of the data when moving data. Using the backup storage pool command can sync both source and copy storage poo...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

Add Auto deploy option in client option sets

The idea is to manage AUTODEPLOY YES/NO/NO REBOOT on clien option set level.
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

All GM consistent groups freeze status

Its better add the feature like alert which can be scheduled for data exposure at consistent group (session) level. Normally we can see freeze time when we run "lsrcconsistgrp" at SVC CLI.
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Needs more information

add a NTP server for the rsyslog time of TSSC to be synced with external NTP

When I logged in to TSSC on one of our devices I noticed that the syslog had printed that I had logged in 19 minutes before I actually had... After raising this with IBM they told me the following: The 3957 TSSC that we use to log in and out of th...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Needs more information

Containerized AFM node

We would like to have a containerized AFM node as an option in Fusion. Also, what type of encryption would be used in storage?
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Needs more information

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Needs more information

Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

Enhance mmshutdown confirm shutdown logic to make it ctrl-c resistend.

We had a maintenance window and want to update a storage-cluster that own 20 FS for native K8s and OCP-Clusters. We see if a additionally mmshutdown are happen and the Admin make on the prompt a ctl-c the shutdown process are working together and ...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Needs more information

ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Needs more information

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