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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...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Ability to open a case for Storage Insights via Storage Insights

Request to allow a user to open a support case for Storage Insights using Storage Insights. Storage Insights is able to open support cases for the IBM block storage systems but it does not have an option to open a support case for itself. As a res...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

ESEsizer - Enhance error handling conditions around communication timeouts caused by network drops

It would seem that the ESEsizer tool requires network connectivity for a long duration when collecting stats from the DS8900. Unfortunately, when there are network dropouts - the whole ESEsizer session is ruined, and you need to start again - whic...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

S3 Object Lock Governance Mode support required

Herman IT is a typical MSP which sells COS S3 capacity for their customers. Customers are demanding immutability for their data for X years. These customers may have a contract with MSP which expires in 1-3 years. If their customer wants to set an...
5 months ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

add a DMS portal for GEOs other than AWS-US.

The DMS portal of Defender is currently only available in AWS-US. For customers in Europe that have to deal with DORA, NIS2, GDPR and other topics find it hard or impossible to accept a critical application running outside of EU. Please roll-out a...
12 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

IAM functionality via REST API

I’d like to raise our concern on Storage Protect product violating one of our internal guidelines by being incapable of providing required service. It is expected to manage Storage Protect administrative accounts from enterprise internal Identity ...
26 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Spectrum Scale ECE - Support 512 storage nodes in a single ECE cluster

With the rapid growth in demand for AIGC and autonomous driving, our customers are expecting a single GPFS cluster and file system to scale to a larger size. We need a single GPFS cluster to surpass the current limit of 256 storage nodes, reaching...
26 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow longer volume names - use shorter mapping names - in storage protect snapshot

Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controller production source vol...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Under review

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