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    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|...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O

    Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O.The new statistics should be reported for the mdisks by node.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Volume creation with CSI based on capacity and/or performance of target FlashSystems

    Customer is finishing a PoC that will select OpenShift as their VMware replacement platform. During their day-to-day operations, they provision a large number of volumes for new workloads. This will increase with OpenShift, which requires more vol...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Option to overwrite resources when doing retore

    When doing a restore of resources, you have to previously delete the ones you want to restore. This is really complicated for customers and other backup SW allows "overwrite" including a tick on the restore process
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    To have a possiblity to disable certain ciphers on BA

    As one of our customers is operating an SP environment, they are regularly check with PEN-tests. And each year the find the BA to be possible vulnerable to CVE-2013-0169 (LUCKY13) as there are CBC ciphers available on the "schemode=prompted port" ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Backup of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments

    Currently there is no support for backups of encrypted vSphere 6.5 environments with TSM/ISP4VE (which is stated in the documentation). Due to the fact that some customers require encryption for their VMware environments, support for the new (V6.5...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    we need an a way to avoid such NFS System Hang IO when any of protocol nodes restarted and ganesha go in grace period time ...i suggest to enhance in way of ganesha work to avoid clients that connected to other protocol nodes to affect with this time and only cliets that connected to this rebooted node hange in time of grace period until VIP move to another availabe node ...As we have a Big cluster with 6 nodes of protocol nodes and when one of them go down all banking sectors affected with this time of grace period ..hope to find us a solution for this long time problem desing.

    because not all system will go down and only clients that connected to protocol node affected one will disconnect only and other will still working fine. all mega projects that use Spectrum scale and to avoid SPOF description when one of protocol ...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Data integrity check per dasd volume

    Right now, data integrity is very very important in all IT systems. Very often, we would perform dasd volume copy in daily BAU or in system upgrade steps. We need to have a easy to use, straight forward and fast method to compare the data in 2 das...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    implement a call like dsmPing() to keep sessions alive

    Sessions on the Spectrum Protect server gets terminiated due to inactivity timeout, even though there are still a running backup on the client. The backup process that are scanning for changed blocks can sometimes take long time.For example DB2 in...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    CNSA Support for Per-PV Encryption

    Add support for Scale CNSA to provide per-PV encryption allowing for each PV to use its own encryption key from GKLM or HashiCorp Vault. This would be configured as part of the encryption config CR for the PVC. Allow for each fileset associated wi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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