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    Add the possibility for SP4VE to be able to force the format of the VM drives, during restores, to EAGER ZEROED.

    (See case number TS016942043 for details) Even though VM disks are formatted as thick eager zeroed, SP4VE formats them as lazy zeroed during restores. This causes problems on the VCenter's end and additional work for the VM administrators.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    Get SOBAR supported for Spectrum Archive Disaster Recovery

    We use SOBAR to backup metadata of all data that is going to Storage Archive. This is the only way to be able to recover data that was migrated toStorage Archive and recover this data when a disaster happens. In our use case we have an active arch...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Under review

    Adding multipath support for FC backup

    One of our customers has Cohesity cluster (12 nodes - Dell PowerEdge 760XL). Each server has 1 HBA (32Gb) with 2 ports and it`s connected to 2 Cisco switches (according to Cohesity recommendations). The problem is all my 12 nodes working through 1...
    9 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    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...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Show Capacity Savings Total Provisioned Line only for vDisk assigned to a host

    On the FS or SVC Dashboard the total provision value is the value in all vDisk. If attached behind a SVC, there are normally provisioned but not assigned vDisk to fill up the entire space. That leads into a missunderstanding on the dashboard.
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    REST consistency and authentication improvements

    The rest api is currently not consistent with the eeadm cli. This makes it difficult to automate things that rely on information the cli can output but the rest api doesn't. A few examples: 1. tasks https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-ee/1...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

    Add a nickname parameter to the DSCLI commands mklcu, lslcu, chlcu and showlcu

    The additional field can be very useful in multi-customer environments to add a comment (e.g. customer name) for each lcu.
    12 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Add support for Operations Center in Ubuntu Linux

    As Ubuntu is supported as a Server OS for Storage Protect the OC should also be available. With a minimum of hacking the Operations Center works just fine in Ubuntu Linux.The "hack"install OC using the bypass flag.ksh ./install.sh -c -vmargs -DBYP...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Under review

    FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage *send your requirements*

    FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Initiate a SafeGuarded Copy from the GUI without using policies (currently only CLI)

    Customer needs a way to initiate an adhoc SGC of a volume. This is currently only possible via CLI. Use case: their SLA’s include taking an immutable snapshot and keeping it for x days (up to a year), immediately after certain changes. Examples in...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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