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Ability to extend/prevent expiration of a single backup or archiving functionality

Sometimes it is needed to make a permanent backup of a good known state of a system, an archive of a sort that will not be deleted by expiration. There should be a way to lock a single backup/prevent its standard expiration and deletion.
16 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Easier or better method to mirror all required images for Fusion

Currently, there are a lot of steps required to mirror the images for Fusion installation. For example to have Fusion + Backup & Restore, we will have to mirror fusion images, then backup & restore images, then RedHat images, then the hotf...
17 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow IBM Fusion Backup to continue if PVCs disappear during the backup process

In a very volatile machine learning environment, PVCs are created and deleted frequently, controlled by the containerized application when users create or delete projects within the application. Let’s call these PVCs “User Project Volumes”. It hap...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

ESEsizer - Enhance error handling conditions around communication timeouts caused by network drops

It would seem that the ESEsizer tool requires network connectivity for a long duration when collecting stats from the DS8900. Unfortunately, when there are network dropouts - the whole ESEsizer session is ruined, and you need to start again - whic...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Once a code upgrade begins, we should block Customers DS GUI logins with a "banner" stating code upgrade is in "progress".

Clients, especially new ones who are not familiar with DS8000 tend to get upset when they are attempting to access the DS GUI during a microcode upgrade and find that they cannot. This will alleviate a great deal of frustration and uncertainly for...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Leverage Storage Scale CNSA shallow copy volumes for Fusion Backup

When using Fusion Backup & Restore to create external backup copies of Storage Scale based PVCs in Openshift (Scale CNSA or Fusion GDP), temporary volumes are created from snapshots and mounted to data movers. These volumes are full copies of ...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration
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Provide Support for Tiering to Tape for Spectrum Protect Plus Data

Spectrum Protect does not allow Data from Spectrum Protect Plus getting tiered from Container Pool to Tape, at current only Tiering to a Cloud Pool, but only to cloud storage classes that support the rapid recall of data.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

IAM functionality via REST API

I’d like to raise our concern on Storage Protect product violating one of our internal guidelines by being incapable of providing required service. It is expected to manage Storage Protect administrative accounts from enterprise internal Identity ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Installation DSCLI via Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

In the past we used DSCLI on Windows. In this environment we got informations about the software itself and security vulnerabilities automatically via a software management tool. If there was a breach or new version we got automatically informed. ...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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