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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...
5 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

API Connect support for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication

Need native supportability for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication for IBM API Connect (IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on Red Hat OpenShift). Since both are IBM owned, it would be great if both teams (Fusion and Cloud Pak for I...
4 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

ECE edition 5.1.9 version support 256 storage node in one cluster

as title, we need 5.1.9 version(LTS)support 256 Necessary
4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Add the possibility for SP4VE to be able to force the format of the VM drives, during restores, to EAGER ZEROED.

(See case number TS016942043 for details) Even though VM disks are formatted as thick eager zeroed, SP4VE formats them as lazy zeroed during restores. This causes problems on the VCenter's end and additional work for the VM administrators.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

Spectrum Archive batch selective_recall tasks should utilize duplicate tapes if primary copy is on invalid tape

Our archive system is set to write files to two tape pools for redundancy (and offsiting). Sometimes we will have a recall where tape 1 copy (set a) is on a tape that needs to go thru validation or has some other reason to not be considered valid....
17 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

Please redesign the AUDIT CONTAINER command and the storage rule so that lost chunks in an directory container storage pool volume are also detected and cleaned up.

For unknown reasons, lost chunks may remain unnoticed in the directory container storage pool.These lost chunks are currently not detected by any check such as the AUDIT CONTAINER command or the AUDIT CONTAINER storage rule.Currently, these lost c...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Relaxing IP quorums placement dependency on the Ethernet ports where the service IP address assigned.

Currently, IP quorums for HyperSwap as well as Policy-Based HA configurations need to be connected to the systems' Ethernet port where the service IP address being assigned. This current design of placing IP quorums prohibits from having a secure ...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add GUI option to view, select and modify mirror write priority of Volumes

Currently it is not possible to specify the mirror write priority parameter in the GUI during Volume Creation. The system allows two options for mirrored volumes: latency (which is the default) and redundancy. In some customer environments it is c...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Improve LTO9 Optimization Process

The (wizard) process to OPTIMIZE LTO 9 Media is a painful long process that does not allow the library or drives not involved in the optimization to be used. We would like to see an improvement not only in the time it takes to optimize the media (...
about 1 month ago in Linear Tape-Open 9 Under review

Please add ability to select individual VMDKs for inclusion, excluding all unselected VMDKs

When configuring a Protection Group with a standardized configuration of the OS partition being on HDISK1, it is easier to select that one VMDK for inclusion rather than have to exclude all other VMDKs. Over time, VM configurations may change and ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review