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To have a possiblity to disable certain ciphers on BA

As one of our customers is operating an SP environment, they are regularly check with PEN-tests. And each year the find the BA to be possible vulnerable to CVE-2013-0169 (LUCKY13) as there are CBC ciphers available on the "schemode=prompted port" ...
16 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

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 ...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

Roadmap to integrate Storage Defender with Fusion

As clients move from VMWare to OpenShift, the workloads are more data intensive and mission critical. Fusion backup and recovery is market leading for container workloads. OpenShift VM backup and recovery is supported with guest agents from IBM St...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Improve DS8000 Rest API capabilities

REST API the current trend for automation. It provides a flexible, scalable, and easy-to-use way to retrieve and automate tasks that can be accessed from any platform or programming language. Enhancing Rest API on DS8000 will enable end users to s...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

Monitoring and Alerting Local Filesystems Usage in Advance for IBM 9500 Nodes

Recently due to Node error 565 "Node internal disk is failing" due to /dumps full getting we discovered the impact where the nodes to be rebooted due to nodes reported in service state.. panel_name cluster_id cluster_name node_id node_name relatio...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

IBM_INSTALL_fs_usage to made permanent to avoid Node issues in iBM 9500

FA utility was designed to report on the usage of /data filesystem so that you would be able to monitor for the situation you encountered on case TS017213594 related to defect SVAPAR-98497. But we noticed this not built-in and its custom utility w...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

Policy Based replication - Keep the target volume mapped to the host when the source volume is removed from the source volume group

On Policy Based replication, When I remove a volume from the source volume group, it should only remove the volume from the target volume group, the volume should not get removed from the array or mapping. It should still be available under the ho...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

TS7700 - Aligned cryptographic support for TLS

Regardless of the interface I'm using on TS7700 or TSSC, the TLS support must be the same on all interfaces like HTTPS and RYSLOG. All of them must be kept in synch and up to date (which is nowadays TLS1.3). Currently there is a mixture of possibl...
4 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

implement an "auto" setting for volume mirror sync rate

currently the volume mirror sync rate can only be set to a fixed value. while it's great to have this real-time setting, it would be even more helpful to also have an "auto" setting for it to have the system decide at which rate it can sync/format...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Fusion B/R Support for Vanilla Kubernetes

Add support to backup and restore Vanilla Kubernetes into Storage Fusion SDS & HCI.
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

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