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Multiple snapshot disk attached to same worker node from different namespaces which cause the "Failed Snapshot" in the backup because of the limitation in VMware end.

Issue where snapshot getting failed on daily backup jobs runs when we have multiple PV/PVCs from different namespace attached the same worker node because of the VMware end there is limitation to handle the multiple tasks at same time. When the fi...
16 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support for certificates with MS Entra SSO

The customer has requested SSO integration with MS Entra to use certificates (instead of a client secret) as a credential.
16 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Support for ERP SAP HANA for RHEL 9 on Power LE

"Currently, only Spectrum Protect for ERP 8.1.11 exists, which is more than two years old, and supports RHEL 8 on Power Little Endian. However, support for SAP HANA on RHEL 9 on Power is now necessary."
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Under review

Rename the Custom tag 1 (2 and 3)

Resources -> Block Storage Systems -> Select a Storage ->View Properties is showing the fields: Custom Tag 1 Custom Tag 2 Custom Tag 3 Resources -> Pools -> Select a Pool -> View Properties is also showing the fields named: Custo...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Migrate SVC volumes from/to pools with different extent sizes

Would it be possible to add a feature/fuction that volumes can be migrated from a pool to another where the pools (source and target pool) have different extent sizes? That would be verry helpful for migration tasks in long grown environments wher...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Support Scale Client running on VMware ESXi 8.x

According to the support page, VMware ESX 7.x is supoorted but not ESXi8.x . Table 72. VMware support matrix on VM guest https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#virtual also please provide GDS(GPUDirect Storage ) support informatio...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

TS7700 - Setup of the timezone (to send RSyslog records with the same time as the receiving system)

TS7700 and TSSC do support the setup of an RSyslog Client and externalize the log collection. However, it is not possible to define a local timezone on either TS7700 or TSSC. This results in a mixture of log entries in the receiving Syslog Server ...
4 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Under review

a software reset of the library should not invalidate the status of the tapes in the IOstation

While after a powercycle of the library or opening the backdoor and removing and reinserting the IOstation, it is correct to rescan the IO station and consider all tapes to be imported, this should not be the case, when the library is instructed t...
6 months ago in Tape - Ultra Density 4 Is a defect

'mmdf Device -h' for Human Readable Output

I'm used to do 'df -h' on linux operating systems to get human readable output. With 'mmdf' I have to use 'mmdf Device --block-size=auto' for human readable output, which is a bit unhandy for me. My suggestion is, to invent 'mmdf device -h' for hu...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Need HCI Fusion Regional DR support for ODF

We (large bank in Canada) is running CP4D with IBM Storage Fusion (ODF) software on-prem in a VMWare environment. We are investigating different Openshift in a BOX solutions to run our CP4D environment. We reviewed the IBM HCI Fusion but realized ...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

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