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Leverage Storage Scale CNSA shallow copy volumes for Fusion Backup

When using Fusion Backup & Restore to create external backup copies of Storage Scale based PVCs in Openshift (Scale CNSA or Fusion GDP), temporary volumes are created from snapshots and mounted to data movers. These volumes are full copies of ...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add a dedicated time frame for media verification function

We would like to define a dedicated time frame in the media verification function so that this verification function is not active during daily backups. This will allow you to unassign the tape drives to this verification function and assign them ...
7 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Process and automation to simplify the patching and software update of large node count clusters

Managaing the the currency of Spectrum/Storage Scale systems are difficult when you have over 1000 nodes within the cluster in question. The request is for the process and automation for both the local repository and cluster endpoints where upon r...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Compatibility matrix of Spectrum Virtualize - Automated process.

Customers always have a hard time to check the compatibility matrix each time they need to upgrade version of Spectrum Virtualize. They need to do extensive manual workload to check the compatibility and they always complaining about it. Also cust...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Storage Insights - Add individual server performance stats

Request for Storage Insights and Spectrum Control to be able to provide individual server performance statistics. Currently SI and SC cannot provide individual performance statistics for a specific host. When you look at the servers, they are show...
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights. Also there are multiple KVM offerings available, which can be evaluated to add support in Storage Insights.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Being able to define an IP white listing to access the Defender Services DMS and DRS

DMS and DRS are SaaS based services which are widely accessible from the Internet. Although there are strong authentication, MFA and other security mechanism controlling the access, some clients are requesting the possibility to restrict access to...
7 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Enable mmbackup to run into remote mounted file systems.

Many Customers have preference using specific and dedicated Networks to perform backups with IBM Spectrum Protect with Spectrum Scale. Today this is not possible using mmbackup because the tool can only be used on the local cluster. This request h...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration
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Provide Support for Tiering to Tape for Spectrum Protect Plus Data

Spectrum Protect does not allow Data from Spectrum Protect Plus getting tiered from Container Pool to Tape, at current only Tiering to a Cloud Pool, but only to cloud storage classes that support the rapid recall of data.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

When tape data is encrypted, but Spectrum Scale recall cache and Stub files are not, how do we encrypt those without recalling the data off tape?

Using both Storage Archive and Storage Scale system (ESS) we need to be able to encrypt the data on ESS without impacting or recalling the tape data (Which is already encryped via the TS4500 Library). The client will be migratiing from Gen2 ESS to...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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