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ibm.storage_virtualize.ibm_svcinfo_command module to have filtervalue options available for use

The ability to have the filtervalue option available would enable searching through lsvdisk to be a much more efficient when it comes to utilising the Ansible Collection. It would reduce the dependency on having to handle the large output from an ...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add IP port utilization to Storage Insights

Currently we can only monitor FC port utilization using SI so we're completely blind when it comes to ISCSI port utilization and need to contact our network team to monitor usage which delays incident resolution. It would be great to be able to mo...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Directory Container Erasure Coding

I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Retention rule Media be part of DRM

If you are using Container Pool and want to create a air-gap copy of your data, either you do a protect storage pool to protect everything to your tape device or if you want to keep a offline copy for a longer period then the normal policy domain ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Network resiliency enhancement - need mechanism for prioritizing control traffic over data traffic via QOS/PFC when RDMA is not enabled.

In a heavy workload situations, some clients are removed from the cluster as peer nodes are not able to communicate as heart-beat/control traffic stuck behind data traffic. Also explore, a dedicated VLAN(s) option for Control and Data traffic.
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

support multi-arch payload to add alt arch worker nodes to HCI OCP cluster

Customers who want to leverage unique capabilities of alternative architecture platforms supported by OCP such as LinuxOne and IBM POWER want to add these alt arch worker nodes to their x86 HCI OCP cluster. Pre-req step on x86 cluster: https://doc...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

API Connect support for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication

Need native supportability for Storage Fusion Regional DR asynchronous data replication for IBM API Connect (IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on Red Hat OpenShift). Since both are IBM owned, it would be great if both teams (Fusion and Cloud Pak for I...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Encryption in flight between Global Data Platform (CNSA) PODs using NIST and FIPs compliance for remote filesystem mounts

Customer is a bank and wants secure communications between all nodes within the storage cluster which is possible but also between any clusters that remote mount and between the storage cluster and the Remote cluster. Because Storage Fusion with G...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add ability to extend the expiration date/time of a stand alone snapshot, possibly by adding option to chsnapshot command

We create snapshots of single volumes that are not part of a volume group and not associated with a snapshot policy. Here is an example: addsnapshot -volumes my_volume1 -ignorelegacy -retentiondays 3 Today, if we need to keep the snapshot beyond t...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

REPL for log collection supported by Spectrum Control

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in Spectrum Control would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review