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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

Prometheus metrics for Fusion Backup and Restore Service operations

Fusion currently exposes a limited set of Prometheus metrics for backup and restore operations. While sufficient for basic monitoring, these metrics do not provide enough detail for production-grade observability. Problem Statement: The current Pr...
22 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Add pool capacity information to REST call "get pools"

Customers are converting from dscli to REST API to feed e.g. Grafana dashboards. The dscli "lsextpool" command displays values for totalLogicalCap, usedLogicalCap, provisionedCap, totalPhysicalCap, usedPhysicalCap and compressionRatio. The REST re...
23 days ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Warning message needed for deleting any data storage in object lock storage in cloud in IBM storage Protect server

Current behavior: ISP allows deletion actions (e.g., DELETE FILESPACE) even when target data is stored in a cloud container storage pool with Object Lock. Risk: Admins can mistakenly remove catalog references while the cloud objects remain undel...
23 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Storage partition PBHA should not be in error when a host is offline

Most of our IBM clients have IBM Power server.And most of them also doesn't use PowerHA. Instead they use offline LPAR that would be ready in case of a PRA. (AIX or IBMi, particulary IBMi with CBU licences). The problem is that the client prefer h...
23 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

IBM Storage Scale GUI emails notifications

Dear team, by a customer we have 12 IBM Storage scale subsystem 5149-F48 with 9 enclosures 5149-091, 10 5149-23E node and 1 5149-23E management node. On the management node we have installed the IBM Storage Scale GUI that have several possibility....
24 days ago in Storage Scale System Submitted

SMB - implement expiry date on user / groups information

when a user first time authenticates to AD server, winbind stores all the group info in samlogon cache. Unless user re-authenticates or cache is removed, user's group data is taken from cache and not from AD. But it happens every now and then that...
24 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Minimal privileges for an SCVMM Cohesity agent service account

To deploy the SCVMM Cohesity agent service an account with Administrator privileges is required. During operations the service is run using this account, and it must use the same Administrator privilege level to operate correctly. Using an account...
28 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

We request the development of functionality to enable client deployment and upgrade through proxies.

We request the development of functionality to enable client deployment and upgrade through proxies, as this will be very helpful for many other clients.
29 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) Submitted

More detailed error messages with vCenter plugin

When the VMware SSL certificate is changed, the vCenter plugin stops reporting any SP-VE configuration. Displaying a more descriptive message, such as ‘SP-VE GUI unavailable’ or a warning about a connection/SSL issue, would help customers understa...
29 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

More detailed error messages for SP-VE GUI interface

When the VMware SSL cert is changed, SP-VE does not show any specific errors other than a generic network connection error. More detailed errors would be beneficial to SP customers.
29 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

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