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Support AWS PrivateLink for S3 bucket in Spectrum Protect

We use AWS PrivateLink, which allows AWS customers to send data to S3 over a site-to-site VPN and their VPC, instead of going over the public internet. AWS PrivateLink works by giving customers a personalized DNS address, which can be used to acce...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Proactive support service within Operations Center

Operations Center Proactive Support with Health monitor and Advisor.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Support openSUSE as a GPFS client

SLES is an officially supported Linux distribution for installing GPFS/Scale (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=gpfs-software-requirements). openSUSE is binary compatible with SLES as of version 15.3 (see https://www.suse.com/c...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Pod placement on OCP infra nodes

Ability to schedule BaaS/SPP components inside Kubernetes/Openshift environments into dedicated nodes, based on placement rules.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs

GEICO is in the process of migrating from older Scale infrastructure to an ESS infrastructure. Non-disruptive migration is blocked when Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Flash/SSDs Wear & Endurance GUI Monitoring

Urgently requested for Spectrum Storage Insight and Spectrum Virtualize GUI feature enhancement, to include tracking and monitoring of the Flash/SSDs devices on their wear and endurance. Competitors already having such features on their GUI dashbo...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Increased number of concurrent SSH connections and allow us to manage open ssh connections

Allow an increased number of available ssh sessions into an SVC and allow us to terminate or timeout hung or idle connections.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center

HiI try to generate Monthly Operational Overview report using operation center but there is no monthly option available. Currently available options are either daily or weekly only. Would you please provide e-fix for the monthly option? My operati...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Manual Installation SPP Plus Client

File System Inventory Failing to complete over the WAN. According to support this could due the low network bandwidth between the SPP Server and the remote client. I ask a procedure to manually install the client on the remote server and Support a...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Replication status

Currently Spectrum Protect only show in the reports the status of a VM in compliance with replication policy but a person can not tell the % outstanding to replicate and or the % completed this makes reporting on the environment status much harder...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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