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    VM clones should be created and made available in seconds, not minutes

    For our ETH Zurich internal customers we need to be able to provide new VMs automatically, sometimes in large numbers, and we must be capable of creating and making such VM clones available within a few seconds. Moving VMs within a VM datastore cl...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Increase REST API max requests per second limit

    The limit is currently 3 requests per second. For clients with more than a couple environments running concurrently (snapshots, replication changes) this results in significant delays or even failures when using the REST API's.
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 3 Submitted

    iSCSI Performance Optimization for OLVM Platform & LAB SETUP

    create a OLVM LAB setup and test the following host parameters for achieving improvement in host side disk performance to IBM MTU: 9000 (jumbo frames) iSCSI Paths: 8 ( already clarified on the IBM call. can be achieved only using additional cards....
    26 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    The Fusion application is using IAM User-based authentication (Access Key ID + Secret Key) to connect to the AWS S3 bucket for cloud storage. TS022896675

    The Fusion application is using IAM User-based authentication (Access Key ID + Secret Key) to connect to the AWS S3 bucket for cloud storage. These are static, long-lived credentials that require manual rotation and pose a security risk if exposed...
    17 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Offering a sorted volume group

    When creating new volumes, a volume group can be selected. The items in the drop-down menu are not sorted by name (I believe they are sorted by volume group ID).This isn't a major issue if there are only one or two VGs, but it becomes problematic ...
    18 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Dual Control for DS8900F

    Given that the EOS for the DS8900F is not expected to be available until late 2030, many field installations of this generation will be around until then and beyond. And as the threat of cyberattacks is on the rise, it would be beneficial for IBM ...
    5 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    partition-specific CLI prompt

    starting with 9.1.1 we can connect to individual partitions. when doing so thru ssh the CLI prompt (PS1) still shows the full controller's name. it would be very handy to have the partition's name displayed here. especially if you're operating on ...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Client request to add metadata annotations to Scale CES/S3 Objects

    Recently, MLP had inquired about Scale S3 offering annotations for metadata descriptors aligned with objects. They pointed me to a recent announcement from AWS as a reference (see below). The general idea around annotations are to capture AI relat...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Support creating Copy-Container pools to VTL instead of physical tape only

    Customers do have VTL instead of physical tape in use, VTL is used as disaster recovery media. Customer plans to ingest Object Data (IBM Fusion) via S3 Object Agent to a Disk Container Storage Pool. Protection of a Disk Container Storage Pool is p...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter

    Many clients at Middle East have only 2 sites as Prod and DR. They meet requirement of <10ms RTT latency between sites. They'd like to run HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter on Fusion HCI system. RH was not supporting running HCP control plane on base cluster ...
    10 months ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

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