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Get the HighWater mark of Safeguarded Copy used capacity

We would like to know the maximal used of the Safeguarded Copy capacity for a volume. This will improve the monitoring of SafeguardedCopy and will help to define a good multiplier (and be sure we can backup the full volume, in addition to regular ...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

Provide last login time / date via DSCLI lookup

This is a requirement for audit purposes to be able to provide a list of users with last login date via a feed from the DSCLI. Currently you can get this information via the GUI but we can't get it via the DSCLI commands which is a requirement in ...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Add DarkMode to the GUI

I suffer with eye strain and light sensitivity and it seems like supporting a dark mode is pretty straight forward.
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add a nickname parameter to the DSCLI commands mklcu, lslcu, chlcu and showlcu

The additional field can be very useful in multi-customer environments to add a comment (e.g. customer name) for each lcu.
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

"Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" metric available for reports

Currently the metric "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" is available to chart under Volume Group->Capacity, but it's not possible to include this metric in a report. This is essential to understand what each VM etc consumes in snapshots, for exa...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Throttle/QoS for Volume Groups

Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement that could combine throttle and volume groups. Since we are moving to volume groups related to all aspects and is possible to define the RPO objective (of PBR) directly in the replication policy, one p...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Expedited inode scan / faster disk replacement for descOnly disks with filesystem that have large inode counts

For Scale filesystems with very large inode counts, requesting an improvement to reduce/consolidate the inode scan requirements when replacing the descOnly disks (128M).
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under 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...
16 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow customer to choose the amount of memory allocated to CSI driver

Customer during provisioning of a large number of volumes from within OpenShift to FlashStorage FS9500 on the back-end, hit a limit related to the amount of memory allocated to the CSI driver by default. The customer would like to be able to selec...
16 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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