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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Policy Based Replication - Need a way to monitor how far out of sync destination volumes are from the source volumes for different Volume Groups

When adding IBM flashsystems to a monitoring tool (we have Zabbix), it can see the Volume Groups made on the flashsystems, but it is not able to get any information that shows how far out of sync the destination volumes are from the source volumes...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 8.0

According to the support page, VMware ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x, 7.0.x are supported but not ESXi 8.0.x IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platforms https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv For lon...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
5 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Future consideration

Secure Passwords for TS7700 MI/GUI with local user accounts: longer passwords and also special characters

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the requirement to use Passwords with a Length of 21 Characters for administrative Accounts. Also we have to use Special characters, in addition to numeric and alphanumeric characters for higher Pa...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

CES S3 - S3 Bucket Notification

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Schedule a snapshot every 4 weeks via GUI (currently only available via CLI)

A snapshot schedule created via GUI does not allow this schedule: mksnapshotpolicy -backupunit week -backupinterval 4 Using the GUI, only once a month can be set but customer needs every 4 weeks for his schedule. He primarily uses GUI, rather than...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Initiate a SafeGuarded Copy from the GUI without using policies (currently only CLI)

Customer needs a way to initiate an adhoc SGC of a volume. This is currently only possible via CLI. Use case: their SLA’s include taking an immutable snapshot and keeping it for x days (up to a year), immediately after certain changes. Examples in...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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