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    Create PBR relationship from Replication ports - and not from Management Port 1only.

    We are replacing Netapp Storage at customer which has 2 sites. They are doing replication between the 2 sites on dedicated layer2 network. We have FS5300, with 2 ports dedicated to replication , why the PBR must be configure from the primary manag...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Disable attempts to cleanup IBM Flash array snapshots after Devender SAN backup/restore

    When the current version of Defender runs a backup or recovery operation for a SAN source, a snapshot will be created of the configured storage, the backup/recovery operation completed and then a cleanup of the snapshot is attempted. Normally this...
    3 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    The VTS TS7700 should return other reason UNknown in TVILCAT when the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR.

    When CBRXLCS macro want to change a category, i receive UN on LIBRARY MANAGER CATEGORY CONSTANTS FOR TVILCAT from CBRTVI macro.The VTS TS7700 return UN because the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR and because the category DEVSUPxx is not e...
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 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...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Perform Remote Pair FlashCopy on *all* Metro Mirror pairs in a parallel PPRC setup

    We have four site replication where the primary devices have two targets (Parallel Metro Mirror). Currently Remote Pair FlashCopy (pmir) is only able to be enabled on one leg. When HyperSwap is enabled on the leg without pmir enabled, a FlashCopy ...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    API to change the admin password on DS8000

    Since they're integration issues with CyberArk and DS8K it would be great for clients to able to change admin user password with API.
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

    Global Mirror RPO Alerting from DS8000

    Clients running Global Mirror replication are always concerned about the state of their replication - mainly through the RPO metric. Currently, there is no direct RPO reporting that is handled by the DS8000 system itself. For clients not using man...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Requirement for LDAPS (secure LDAP) support

    Since 2020 Microsoft has been actively pushing for adoption of LDAPS (LDAP over SSL/TLS) for security hardening of Active Directory Cloud and on-premise environments. Therefore, products to maintain supported access will need to support LDAPS. Cus...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 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...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Support for Gen 2 Storage Nodes in Fusion HCI Gen1 Rack with FDF

    Client who invested in Gen 1 HCI Racks with C01/C05 Nodes can add more capacity for bringing new persistent workload on OCP/Fusion Cluster. This can be achieved via testing C14 Storage Nodes in Gen1 Rack with C01/C05 nodes.
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

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