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Spectrum Scale performance data collection with non root user in Spectrum Control

When Spectrum Scale/ESS storage is added using non root user, performance data shows "Not Supported".Only root user can pull performance data in current design. There have been some requirement using "non root" user.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

We would like to store all our archive data on a S3 AWS cold tier target.

We have a use case in our environment for sending our archive data to a cloud container pool that would exist on the Spectra Logic BlackPearl device that supports AWS cold tier functionality. With an S3 cold tier cloud container option we would no...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Migrate/Tier older data from containerpool to tape

Hello, we use large file pools for our backups, these pools store a number of days of backups, then older/cold data get migrated to tape.Currently we have some severe pains with the file pools when migration is done to a collocated storagepool, se...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support TLS 1.3 for use with IBM SKLM

Industry is requiring stronger current encryption levels.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

NFS protocol nodes upgrade without disruption

Customer is having NFS being autheticated my MS AD. In this case SMB service needs to be installed and according to documentation, NFS outage is done when upgrading protocol nodes. Customer is requesting non-disruptive NFS protocol nodes upgrade a...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Backup Direct to Tape

Need the ability for clients to leverage existing infrastructure such as tape libraries they have bought and allow Spectrum Protect Plus to offload directly to tape.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Ability to open a case via Storage Insights for Brocade switches.

Clients are currently unable to open a case to IBM support via Storage Insights for any added to their instance Brocade switch. A feature allowing this would be nice.
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Show zHyperlink performance details in DS8K GUI

Would be helpful in monitoring DS8K performance or in case of incident handling.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

CNSA Support for Per-PV Encryption

Add support for Scale CNSA to provide per-PV encryption allowing for each PV to use its own encryption key from GKLM or HashiCorp Vault. This would be configured as part of the encryption config CR for the PVC. Allow for each fileset associated wi...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Allow the ability to run a report that will provide the differences between two policies

I need to track all of the customizations between the default policies and the custom ones. Right now, I need to document that by hand. It would be far better to be able to run a report and have it provide the information. I also could see the use...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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