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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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SI does not provide a way to investigate "Error" or "Warning" statuses in the "Health status" column for virtual machines.

IBM Storage Insights currently does not explain or provide a way to investigate "Error" or "Warning" statuses in the "Health status" column for virtual machines. As a result, administrators must manually check vCenter Server for details. Please en...
22 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Launch Defender Licensing calculator service to enable self-service license planning

There's a need to launch a Defender Licensing calculator service within the platform to increase transparency and enable self-service for Defender customers The information and platform is already available within IBM and IBM Ecosystem organizatio...
4 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

General group alert thresholds should have the option of selecting aggregation or individual object

We require an alert definition for a specific scenario. The alert should trigger when the cumulative write data rate of HyperSwap volumes exceeds 2000MB/s. We cannot set the alert on the Pool component because the pool also contains non-HyperSwap ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

CES S3 - subnet restrictions in S3 bucket policies

One of our ESS clusters stores highly sensitive data for around two thousand projects that needs to be kept strictly separate between projects, so we neeed the possibility to add subnet-requirements to buckets for proper data separation, like we c...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

extend the eventlog - type Audit 'A cartridge setting was changed'

When a physical tape is moved to the i/O station or a drive a audit statement in the eventlog will be create. In this record are no information about the cartridge and no information about the target destination(drive oder I/O Station). The sendin...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Policy Based Replication Allow rename of volumes into a volume group with replication policy assigned

We sometime need to rename a volume because it makes things cleared when you want to add other volumes or other vlume groups. For the moment, as soon as a policy is applied, the rename of a volume inside a volume group is not possible. Could you p...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Password Policies for TS7700 MI/GUI for local user accounts like the TS4500 GUI/MI password policy setting

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the Requirement to use secure Passwords with certain Criteria of Length and Characters contained in the Password. To ensure that every TS7700 User Account meets these Requirements, we need a Passwo...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

add option for the tgtread status

We are using CSM on open system to manage zOS LPAR. When we create replication, the option tgtread is at yes with CSM, which is not compatible with zOS. Can you add a checkbox to manage this option?
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Additional OS Support for Storage Defender Sensors

IBM Storage Defender includes Sensors that are invented by IBM Research and are first active AI-backed threat detection against malware filesystem activity tye of sensors in market. The additional file-level ransomware active threat detection prov...
6 months ago in Storage Defender 2 Future consideration

The run fix procedure schould check for all equal errors in one step

ease of use, faster checks. If we update the backend systems behind a SVC or flash system the recovery procedure does a cleanup only for one item at a time, so if you updated a bunch of systems behind a SVC, you have a minimum of two events in the...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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