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Bastion/DHCP/DNS server option for Fusion HCI

I believe that the servers required for Fusion HCI installation should be offered as option of Fusion HCI. When building Fusion HCI environment, external server is requried for: - DNS/DHCP server - bastion server for application installation - mge...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

Ability to clear HBA port counters from port statistics without reboot

Part of ongoing monitoring, and also as troubleshooting aid after a repair is completed, it would be great to have ability to clear FC HBA port statistics. Note: Counters referred to are the CRC errors, loss of sync, etc which can only be cleared ...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Support for native velero backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

In case of a non-OpenShift container environment, native Velero implementation can be used to backup containerized applications. Velero is able to write the backups to an S3 target, for which the Object Agent from the Storage Protect can be used.
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

Allow Lun masking for the control path

With the TS4500 and other tape libraries, the Library Control path (SMC Device) is presented via Lun 1 over one or more drives, while access to the drive (RMT Device) itself is provided using Lun 0. In a larger tape environment, there is usually a...
12 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Increase limits and remove restrictions for NVMe over Fiber Channel

Increase the limit of "NVMe over Fiber Channel hosts per I/O group = 16", (maybe to double that) and REMOVE the Volume Mobility restrictions #5: "SCSI only. Fibre Channel and iSCSI supported. NVMe not supported." IBM has been touting the usefulnes...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Graphical topology view VM -> datstore -> ESX -> Storage lun -> IBM FS9500 array.

vCenter, Hosts, and Virtual Machines associated can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu table. If user clicks on a specific virtual machine, then under “Internal/Virtual Machine/ Related resources” panel it gives details about HBA, Driv...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

dsmadmc login prompt when using MFA

When logging in to dsmadmc having MFA activated on the account you do not get any indication on the password prompt that this is active. Suggestion either have a message that you need to enter password plus mfa code Or Rather Present the mfa passw...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

Alert for AC Power missing on Fs9500

Fs9500 is considered Enterprise Storage. When AC power is missing, IBM service notification is NOT opened. Other Enterprise Storage like A9K and Ds8K are reporting this event. Moreover, even if Fs9500 is equipped with 4 different PSU, since AC pow...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Under review

Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include addi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

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