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IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

mdisk array expansion is too slow

one of my clients needed to expand pool capacity by expanding the underlying mdisk array after adding new FCM4s. The process is taking too long, months on FS9500. Last expansion they were doing, they added 12x FCM4 and the array is estimating 40 d...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Allow sources, policies, protection groups, etc. to be organized in a manner other than source type.

Currently, as sources are defined, the way the information is displayed is by the type of source. So, all vSphere, SAN, SQL sources are displayed with the same type. This makes it difficult to find sources in a way meaningful to the operator. Idea...
2 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Improve FlashSystem grid abilities for multiple systems Code Upgrade in one single interface.

Improve the capabilities of the Flashsystem Grid by allowing the code and drive firmware updates of all storage systems to be done through a single management interface, instead of having to open the management interfaces of each Storage that belo...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

REST API call for the "mmexpelnode -l" command

Hello. I suggest creating a REST API call equivalent to the "mmexpelnode -l" command. We monitor the environment via the REST API, and it would be useful to monitor the nodes that have been expelled from the cluster to trigger specific alerts for ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System Submitted

Improve Flashsystem grid abilities for daily operations (vdisk, host connections, lun masking, etc).

We have customers requesting that our Grid solution allow them to manage, administer and configure the functionalities and components of the Storages through a single management interface, without the need to open a specific management interface f...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

allow network endpoint address to be edited on an external source (S3).

Currently, once you have defined an external source you can edit several parameters, but the endpoint address (network address/ip) cannot be changed.
about 1 month ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

CNSA Support for Hosted control planes (HCP)

Hosted control planes (HCP) are becoming more and more popular to consolidate multiple Openshift Cluster. It centralizes the cluster management and add security advantages. As we move towards HCP cluster, it is important to have CNSA supported for...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

Ability to set timeout value for importing volume group and file system mount operation within a properties file on the CDM server.

Currently the system lacks this capability, and our environment has on occasion situations that prevent these operations from completing before the hard-coded timeout expires. The ability to tune the time out will prevent the process from failing ...
2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Improve how to change volume population rate

If the rate for a volume population should get changed (default 2 MB/s) it is required at first to display the "populating_mapping_id" using "lsvolumepopulation -showhidden". Then this "populating_mapping_id" must be used with the command "chfcmap...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Customer requesting support of TOTP/SAML

So we will be moving to Ping, the date is still TBD. That said yes that will be of interest to us when we implement Ping.. But the gap on SSH access will still be a concern. As far as other products that do this. Cohesity has pretty extensive supp...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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