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Warning when deleting volumes they still have snapshots associated with them.

Within the FlashSystem OS, when you delete a volume, the volume does not go away and remains in the system if there is a snapshot(s) associated with it. The OS does not tell you that it cannot delete, but simply places the volume in a delete(ing) ...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add IP port utilization to Storage Insights

Currently we can only monitor FC port utilization using SI so we're completely blind when it comes to ISCSI port utilization and need to contact our network team to monitor usage which delays incident resolution. It would be great to be able to mo...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

ibm.storage_virtualize.ibm_svcinfo_command module to have filtervalue options available for use

The ability to have the filtervalue option available would enable searching through lsvdisk to be a much more efficient when it comes to utilising the Ansible Collection. It would reduce the dependency on having to handle the large output from an ...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

We need application consistent Safeguarded Copy protect for SAP R/3

We have multiple customers that are still using SAP R/3 for a while before switching to SAP HANA. Since ERP is part of their minimum viable company, we need a way to safeguard this application.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Under review

support multi-arch payload to add alt arch worker nodes to HCI OCP cluster

Customers who want to leverage unique capabilities of alternative architecture platforms supported by OCP such as LinuxOne and IBM POWER want to add these alt arch worker nodes to their x86 HCI OCP cluster. Pre-req step on x86 cluster: https://doc...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Directory Container Erasure Coding

I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Add ability to extend the expiration date/time of a stand alone snapshot, possibly by adding option to chsnapshot command

We create snapshots of single volumes that are not part of a volume group and not associated with a snapshot policy. Here is an example: addsnapshot -volumes my_volume1 -ignorelegacy -retentiondays 3 Today, if we need to keep the snapshot beyond t...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Encryption in flight between Global Data Platform (CNSA) PODs using NIST and FIPs compliance for remote filesystem mounts

Customer is a bank and wants secure communications between all nodes within the storage cluster which is possible but also between any clusters that remote mount and between the storage cluster and the Remote cluster. Because Storage Fusion with G...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Request for SMTP Settings Feature in TS2900 Tape Library

Dear IBM Product Management Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to request an enhancement for the TS2900 Tape Library related to its SMTP configuration capabilities. Currently, the SMTP settings on the TS2900 do not support...
3 months ago in IBM TS2900 Tape Library 0 Under review

success ful backup in database

So according to this case the filespace table in database, column "last_successful_backup" for Exchange TDP is only updated if replication is configured. If replication is not running, this value is not updated as it should.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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