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Roadmap to integrate Storage Defender with Fusion

As clients move from VMWare to OpenShift, the workloads are more data intensive and mission critical. Fusion backup and recovery is market leading for container workloads. OpenShift VM backup and recovery is supported with guest agents from IBM St...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Fusion alternate namespace restores for Cloud Paks

Customer query - Will CPD 4.8 support via Fusion a restore of the same instance into a new namespace within the source cluster? That means I have two instances in different namespaces within the cluster. This is a constant request from customers w...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1

Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pool Storage Space Reduction

Bosch is requesting a Spectrum Protect server administrative command which allows the administrator to reclaim container storage pool space including deletion of empty volumes from the file system.In an optimal implementation, the administrative c...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add AIX support to Storage Defender

Storage Defender lacks AIX support. Both are IBM products and why one IBM Product doesn't support another IBM product used by many IBM customers?
9 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Needs more information

Support for IP based Static Routing (in connection with iSCSI volume/host mappings)

At the definition of the iSCSI interface/addresse in the SVC - it is currently at an Eth port only possible to define ONE Standard Gateway. But if the IP network cannot be reached over this one Standard Gateway for any reason, then there must be a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

REST API for mms3 - enhancement: create S3 user

Currently a REST API call to create a new S3 user account is missing, This is needed for several client applications. The AWS REST API and client provides this function which is currently used by a client application... workaround to create user a...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable AWS STS support

Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Multiple Storage Protect Server DB backup on one tape

Currently SP only supports storing one internal DB backup per volume. If using tape (as recommended) e.g. LTO9 this results in using a 18 TB tape volume for storing only 100 GB database backup. Running 20 instance and doing 2 DB backup per day kee...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Pre-migration Queue Threshold Alert

Description: This would be useful to quickly identify issues with the VTS that can happen should it stop offloading to physical tape for any reason. Currently there is no alert, and the first symptom of trouble will come from long running jobs tha...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

TS7700 - Aligned cryptographic support for TLS

Regardless of the interface I'm using on TS7700 or TSSC, the TLS support must be the same on all interfaces like HTTPS and RYSLOG. All of them must be kept in synch and up to date (which is nowadays TLS1.3). Currently there is a mixture of possibl...
5 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

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