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HPO to support AFM managed data along with data transfer to AWS S3

In order to provide high-performance hybrid-cloud object storage for Analytics & AI, within HPO, it is required to process S3 object data via AFM to on-prem AND on AWS S3. To place/move objects intelligently on/to AWS S3, HPO AFM needs to supp...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CNSA on OpenShift on bare-metal along with InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to support CNSA on bare-metal OpenShift with InfiniBand by June 2023. Workaround of CNSA on VMware with InfiniBand is not supported, because OpenShift does not supp...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DS8000 REST API New functions

Expand the DS8k REST API to include more functions that are provided today with DSCLI.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

Role Based Encryption

Storage Scale's current encryption process allows anyone with access to the encrypted filesystem, with the proper access controls, to read data that was previously written.What Discover Financial services, Lockheed Martin and Well Fargo (Matt Klos...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Easy change certificate on S3 storage agent

Today the S3 Agent certifikate is catched from the default certifikation on sp server at the the installation of s3 agent. It's not possible to add a new certifikate to the s3 agent certificate store. To change the certificate you must deinstall t...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support routed networks for management and fsp networks

ESS documentation states that the FSP and Management networks for a stretched cluster has to be: All networks are flat, single namespace (ESS stretch cluster requirements) which I interpret to mean they must be same subnet, not routed. Practically...
12 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

SPP - Support Incremental Backup of Exchange DBs on ReFS

Customer has recently replaced Commvault with IBM SPP. Only Full Exchange backups are working as the customer is using ReFS.Also, since SPP is using VSS of the Exchange Server, backup of the 2nd Exchange DB cannot be started unless the backup of f...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Adding Support of Noobaa Metrics with Integration in Zimon Sensors

Currently the existing mmces protocols has integration of metrics in the zimon Sensor Framework, but the newest one, mms3 (noobaa-core) don't. We use the current zimonGrafanaBgridge to visualize these Metrics in Grafana. The current available func...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support larger tape ranges in the Selective Device Access Control tape range table

The SDAC tape range table supports 50 entries total. A range of A00000-A99999 covers 100K tape volumes. My client uses letters in the second position of the tape volser (A-Z). I have to enter a range such as AA0000-AA9999 (covers 10K tape volumes)...
12 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

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