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Role Based Encryption

Storage Scale's current encryption process allows anyone with access to the encrypted filesystem, with the proper access controls, to read data that was previously written.What Discover Financial services, Lockheed Martin and Well Fargo (Matt Klos...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Implement the possibility to balance host I/O throttling on cache partition level

When TS7700 runs into host I/O throttling, this throttling is equal across all CPx partitions today. Since work load on different CPx may have higher or lower priority in the business/application context, it is required to have the possibility to ...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Support more than 15 remote clusters with fileset access control

Customer needs strict separation of filesets accessible on different compute clusters, and want to utilize RFAC to control what view each of the compute clusters has access to in the file system. Customer was then surprised when they hit the limit...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Support Flexgroup volumes in containerpools

NDMP Backup of Netapp-Flexgroup should be supported to container pools. Flexvol is supported and working, but Flexgroup are denied because of different magic in the header (EA6C vs. EA6D).
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

Support NVIDIA H100 for Fusion HCI GPU node

NVIDIA GPU L40S support for GPU nodes alone is not enough to propose Fusion HCI in combination with Wotsonx.AI for generative AI environment. We need H100 support to win.
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 1

Add more Debug Tools in DS8xxx to implement Data At Rest

When trying to implement Data At Rest encryption, we got several problems to establish communication with the key servers. On DS8xxx side (which is the client in the relation), messages for debugging are not really explicit. On Key Server side, no...
12 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Pre-migration Queue Threshold Alert

Description: This would be useful to quickly identify issues with the VTS that can happen should it stop offloading to physical tape for any reason. Currently there is no alert, and the first symptom of trouble will come from long running jobs tha...
about 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Enable a user to change the time zone within browser view of metrics

When I view performance metrics for a given Storage Virtualize (StorV) cluster SI renders time based on browser time zone setting. My investigation of performance issues would more efficient If I could change the time zone to match the time zone o...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Enable AWS STS support

Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for IP based Static Routing (in connection with iSCSI volume/host mappings)

At the definition of the iSCSI interface/addresse in the SVC - it is currently at an Eth port only possible to define ONE Standard Gateway. But if the IP network cannot be reached over this one Standard Gateway for any reason, then there must be a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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