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209 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
12 months ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

"Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" metric available for reports

Currently the metric "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" is available to chart under Volume Group->Capacity, but it's not possible to include this metric in a report. This is essential to understand what each VM etc consumes in snapshots, for exa...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for hosted bare metal worker

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
24 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

Defender data Protect KVM Support

Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
29 days ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Support DHCP with NSD for ESS/SSS clusters

This will allow enterprises that require DHCP for ip address resolution.
4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Volume hot expansion support for PBHA solution

The client has two FS5200 and implemented PBHA, but is questioning that it is not possible to perform hot volume expansion, he requested documentation showing that it is on the roadmap.
7 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release
136 VOTE

Enhancement to DS8K's HMC power supply redundancy

We request more power paths for HMC of DS8K. My customer had the incident that two IO enclosures (#3 and #4) fail in DS8886 and both HMCs were cut off from the power path, making the HMCs unusable. As a result, logging and remote support could not...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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