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Search for the node serial number

When we see a CSP ticket with a link to storage insights, the link points to the machine park, not the specific device for which the ticket is open. There is no search option to check for the node serial number. The node serial number is listed in...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

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

'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

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

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

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

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

RestAPI access to ESG information provided by 'show su' CLI command.

Many clients are required to report on ESG/energy use in their data centers. This would provide a way to collect this data in an automated way.
17 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

IBM FlashSystems using PBR is readonly on the AIX Hosts. Cannot send any IO to the luns so the AIX host is failing the paths.

IBM FlashSystems using PBR is no IO (No read or write) on the Mirror/DR side impacting operation procedures on the AIX Hosts. They cannot send any IO to the luns so the AIX host is failing the Paths. Validate the paths are clean by doing a healthc...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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