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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 ...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Support export node when using directory container storage pools

Simpler way to move data from one SP server to another versus node replication, also support export node ti filedev class.The command export node today runs but in actlog all files present that it is not allowed, the command should have resturned ...
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Add SP Server logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX

Currently, logging to SYSLOG is only available on Linux. To properly integrate SP into SIEM/QRadar, it is essential to have logging to SYSLOG for UNIX/AIX, too.
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Need Support for Open Enterprise Server (OES) OS which is LINUX Distribution

My customer just upgraded his supported OES to a newer version and are being told by IBM that it's no longer support on Spectrum Protect. This OS has been supported in the past (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/linux-x8664-requirements-ibm-st...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Add all cloudpak's as Operator installs

in the Fusion GUI, we have operator install of backup, datacatalog and Global Data Platform.Why not use this place to add all Cloudpak's as well, for easy deployment.First in line would be watsonx.data, watsonx.ai and wastonx.gov.
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 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...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Support for RHEL 9

Now when SPP is not going to be future develop and we need to run a VMware Backups using Dark Site software we falling back to IBM Storage Protect for VMware and we have test it on a RedHat Enterprise Server 9.2 and it works fine accept the servic...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

Fully declarative cephadm experience

Clients moving to cephadm yaml-based declarative Ceph management expect that they can fully manage day-1 and day-2 operations using that method so that they can leverage the GitOps pattern for operations. Areas to be improved: Every parameter that...
7 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Under review

A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories

A function is required for directory container pools to balance the fill level of multiple storage pool directories, especially when an additional storagepool directory is added.Otherwise the Move Container scripts must be generated and started dy...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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