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Add offical Support for s3A semantics in CES-S3 Protocol

Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
17 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters - mmhealth

Hi In order to minimize the risk of system down due to heat problem. It will be great if mmhealth will monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters. This can be done by running the following script: #!/bin/bashfor i in `lspci|grep -i mellanox|...
17 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

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

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

Rebalance client nodes between multiple IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance concerns

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to transparently rebalance nodes between multiple IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance concerns. Currently, IBM Storage Protect, unfortunately, lacks th...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

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 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Under review

Storage Insights Ceph integration : To show all meta data

Full fledged Ceph-SI integration with complete meta data collection of the Ceph cluster including Capacity, Performance metrics. Also to include ticketing, advisories, L2/L3 view features. Samsung / Joyent customer has requested for this.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Increase consistency group 512 volume maximum to at least 2048

Current IBMi client has 498 volumes running on FS9500. Existing DS8K systems each have over 1,500 volume, preventing them from using more FlashSystems. Minimum # of volumes would need to be 2,048 but more would account for future growth.
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Dark site - Airgapped installation of S. Defender

There are multiple situations where SaaS deployment cannot be done per security restrictions. We need an option to have S.Defender control plane deployed onprem as not always cloud deployment is possible
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

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