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Alert notification from Storage Insight for RPO violation.

RPO violation notification can be very helpful to customer and MSP to do required action on time.
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

Support of X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] in SP Object Agent

We backup up native Kubernetes workload with native Velero to SP Object Agent. Since Velero Version 1.13 the backup to SP Object Agent is not working anymore. Velero 1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

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

run the Fusion Data Catalog under podman

This would allow more Scale customers that are entitled to Fusion Data Catalog Service to run it without additional infrastructure to run. Podman could run the Fusion Data Catalog service on a Scale System utility node. We would have more adoption...
22 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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

TS7700 - Setup of the timezone (to send RSyslog records with the same time as the receiving system)

TS7700 and TSSC do support the setup of an RSyslog Client and externalize the log collection. However, it is not possible to define a local timezone on either TS7700 or TSSC. This results in a mixture of log entries in the receiving Syslog Server ...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Under review

Increase consistency group 512 volume maximum to at least 2048

Current IBMi client has 498 volumes running on FS9500. Existing DS8K systems each have over 1,500 volume, preventing them from using more FlashSystems. Minimum # of volumes would need to be 2,048 but more would account for future growth.
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Provide a simple administrative command to show the the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours)

While it is required to size the replication server pairs, the product does not provide a simple administrative command to show the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours). Currently, the only way to get ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

REST API to get performance metrics (including RPO) for volume groups

Need a REST API to get the performance metrics for volume groups that are displayed in Storage Insights. This includes the RPO metrics.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

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