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    Staged severity level for software code level warnings

    In the Advisor section you get hints when your code is below minimum level. It's even called a software warning. We propose to raise it as alert, when on an EOS code version, as wraning when you are below minimum level and as informational when yo...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    CNSA / Rest API - Restrict GUI User access to a single Filesystem

    Today, each CNSA Instance requires two GUI Users with the Access Roles of ContainerOperator and CsiAdmin. These GUI Roles have permissions to connect and manage all existing Filesystems on the Remote Scale Cluster. Fthat means: an Openshift Admin ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon

    Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Respect the TIER of the source volume when adding a volume copy to avoid performance impact

    When a client adds a volume copy to a vdisk, for example when converting a volume from Basic to HyperSwap (but other situations would also apply), the SVC SW does not respect the TIER of the source volume when allocating the extents of the volume ...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Collect SAN portnames/labels of FC ports

    we have lots of customers using insights for SAN monitoring and it would be very helpful to collect portnames, all customers label the ports with the device connected and that label/portname tell us what is wrong when using alert policies, not jus...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    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 ...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Support for Immutable Flag for ext4/xfs file systems

    Please introduce support to use immutable flags in container and file storage pools for linux file systems like ext4 and xfs
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    SELinux enable on RHEL for Spectrum Control server

    SELinux enable on RHEL server for Spectrum Control application. Currently Spectrum Control is working on SELinux disabled RHEL servers.
    4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    VSNAP uses NFS in v.3 in VM test restore. How can we force VSNAP to use NFS in v.4

    It will improve security, performance improvements, improved stability and scalability. NFS is in v.4 due to this ensure VM restores and other operations are performed in the most efficient and secure manner possible.
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights and Spectrum Control

    Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights, and Spectrum Control Also there are multiple KVM offerings available, which can be evaluated to add support in Storage Insights.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

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