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Support Storage Scale Stretch cluster with metroDR of FusionSDS

IBM always push SDS approach. Giving customers the chance to use Storage Scale SW version as Active/ative storage ( stretch cluster) on fusion SDS will open us lots of opportunities
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Future consideration

When tape data is encrypted, but Spectrum Scale recall cache and Stub files are not, how do we encrypt those without recalling the data off tape?

Using both Storage Archive and Storage Scale system (ESS) we need to be able to encrypt the data on ESS without impacting or recalling the tape data (Which is already encryped via the TS4500 Library). The client will be migratiing from Gen2 ESS to...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Encryption on Metro/Global Mirror Link (FCP/PPRC)

It is currently an audit exposure if data is encrypted only at a rest. Clients are required to encrypt data in all physical media where the data transits and is stored, from the CPU to disk, and also from primary copy to all other copies where it ...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Process and automation to simplify the patching and software update of large node count clusters

Managaing the the currency of Spectrum/Storage Scale systems are difficult when you have over 1000 nodes within the cluster in question. The request is for the process and automation for both the local repository and cluster endpoints where upon r...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Leverage Storage Scale CNSA shallow copy volumes for Fusion Backup

When using Fusion Backup & Restore to create external backup copies of Storage Scale based PVCs in Openshift (Scale CNSA or Fusion GDP), temporary volumes are created from snapshots and mounted to data movers. These volumes are full copies of ...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

I noticed that some requests have been made for this support, but I really would like to see some attention given to this issue, because the last driver update is over 3 years old. I need to move on because the end of support for Ubuntu 20.04 is a...
5 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Ability to clear HBA port counters from port statistics without reboot

Part of ongoing monitoring, and also as troubleshooting aid after a repair is completed, it would be great to have ability to clear FC HBA port statistics. Note: Counters referred to are the CRC errors, loss of sync, etc which can only be cleared ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Virtual Host Style addressing support for CES S3

Virtual Host Style addressing (https://bucket.my-s3-server.com) is the preferred S3 addressing option for AWS - see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html Scale CES S3 does not support this out-of-the box yet. Wi...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

Bastion/DHCP/DNS server option for Fusion HCI

I believe that the servers required for Fusion HCI installation should be offered as option of Fusion HCI. When building Fusion HCI environment, external server is requried for: - DNS/DHCP server - bastion server for application installation - mge...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

Add a dedicated time frame for media verification function

We would like to define a dedicated time frame in the media verification function so that this verification function is not active during daily backups. This will allow you to unassign the tape drives to this verification function and assign them ...
8 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

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