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There is a need for the Call Home functionality to be managed from Storage Insights.

Customers are reporting a need (due to security teams) for Call Home requests to be fully handled by Storage Insight, not by FlashSystem arrays
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

Please, support to restore NDMP-formatted data retrieved from NAS in a cluster configuration from [tape media](LTO) to another NAS storage system

Why is it useful? : A common-sense solution for backup restoration is achieved with the combination of NAS storage, ISPs, and tape media.Who would benefit from it? : Nearly all users operating tape backups on NAS storage with a cluster configurati...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Introduce a new command to create additional cache copies within a grid out of existing ones

It is required to have the possibility to create new copies of virtual tapes out of existing (cache) copies in the same grid. As of today, it is not possible to create additional cached copies once the CCP is correct. TS7700 does not distinguish t...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

Introduce a new value for the maximum allowed PMTHLVL in the SETTING or SETTING2 command response

It is required to have the currently allowed maximum of PMTHLVL in the SETTING(2) Library Request command response, e.g. as PMTHMAX This way it is possible to have a check running to verify against the current setting of PMTHLVL. Rational: It is p...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

Fully declarative cephadm experience

Clients moving to cephadm yaml-based declarative Ceph management expect that they can fully manage day-1 and day-2 operations using that method so that they can leverage the GitOps pattern for operations. Areas to be improved: Every parameter that...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Under review

When doing reclamation, recalls should go to other pool copy in 2nd library during reclamation

This helps reclamation to go much quicker, not being paused by recalls on the same tape!
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

Support External Ceph on Fusion HCI as the only storagesystem

For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is the right fit (particularly for OpenShift Virtualization), support configuring External Ceph on Fusion HCI with no other storage defined (no GDP and FDF installed b...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

RegionalDR support for External Ceph

For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is a good fit, rbd-mirror needs to support StorageClass ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd rather than the usual internal StorageClass ocs-storagecluster-ceph-rbd.
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Reset of "lsportstats -node port" error counters on IBM SVC.

We would be very pleased and grateful if you could implement the following requirement.For troubleshooting and error analysis purposes, it would be very helpful if the error counters could be reset to 0 to see if various counters (CRCs, link reset...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

FCM Drives on RDMA Enabled Expansion Enclosure

While the FCM 4 NVMe drives has been a grand success & a milestone in the Storage Industry, we are noticing challenges with vertical scalability, among the customers, where they are unable to expand the FCM & NVMe Pool (using Expansions), ...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

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