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Support Scale Client running on VMware ESXi 8.x

According to the support page, VMware ESX 7.x is supoorted but not ESXi8.x . Table 72. VMware support matrix on VM guest https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#virtual also please provide GDS(GPUDirect Storage ) support informatio...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for ERP SAP HANA for RHEL 9 on Power LE

"Currently, only Spectrum Protect for ERP 8.1.11 exists, which is more than two years old, and supports RHEL 8 on Power Little Endian. However, support for SAP HANA on RHEL 9 on Power is now necessary."
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Under review

Support for Object Lock on IBM Ceph as an object target for Commvault

Testing required for object lock with Commvault using Ceph as the object target. Customer requirement for capacity of approx 2.6PB Ceph system with support for immutability.
6 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 2 Submitted

Webhook support for more than ransomware alerts

It could be useful to have Storage Insights able to push events details to third-party URL whenever an alert is raised or when any event is triggered. This would push the integration of Storage Insights further with ticketing or any other event ma...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Automatic Safegurded volumes to s3 or COS

With safeguarded copy, we have a fantastic solution to provide an immutable copy of a volume. Rapid recovery is effective if the volume resides on the storage array, however, with ransoware taking 200+ days to detect, it is less likely this volume...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Future consideration

Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Fusion alternate namespace restores for Cloud Paks

Customer query - Will CPD 4.8 support via Fusion a restore of the same instance into a new namespace within the source cluster? That means I have two instances in different namespaces within the cluster. This is a constant request from customers w...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1

Per host PWWN data collection for IBM storage insights from IBM Storage Vritualise

The customer has a cluster of 5 hosts which uses a collection of 10 LUNS to get the production environment. When we see storage insights, the data collected is from the volumes in the storage and populated on the console. There's no data collected...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

implement an "auto" setting for volume mirror sync rate

currently the volume mirror sync rate can only be set to a fixed value. while it's great to have this real-time setting, it would be even more helpful to also have an "auto" setting for it to have the system decide at which rate it can sync/format...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Enhance Interface of CES-S3 to add a functionality to create automaticaly a fileset for the bucket path, if a s3 user use s3 mb cmd over the AWS cli

With this feature we can use the filesetquota function, snapshot-funktion to maintain the usage and backup of the underlying fs.
24 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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