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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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MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of TS7700. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Support Fibre Channel (FC) adapters on Fusion HCI for SAN connectivity

With Fusion HCI Control Tower and ability to created Hosted Clusters, there is a demand from customers to connect their existing SAN storage using CSI drivers. Therefore, we need Fusion HCI baremetal nodes to support FC cards - 32Gbps dual-port Em...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

Password expire message on GUI

Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Increase Safeguarded Copy Backup Capacity per volume beyond the current limit of 14.6 TiB for CKD volumes

When using maximum sized CKD EAV (Extended Address) volumes on the DS8K it would be useful to to have more than 14.6TiB of safeguarded volume capacity available. If these large volumes experience high change rates they can easily use up all of the...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

IBM Block CSI Driver support for FIPS-mode OCP

Customers running OpenShift Container Platform in FIPS-mode would be able to leverage IBM FlashSystem block storage for container workloads. Today, deploying the driver on a FIPS-enabled OCP cluster fails HostDefiner object creation with "ValueErr...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
9 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Under review

CES NFS - identify client stale I/O errors

Following case - TS018623841.Client NFS when working with several NFS clients - each mounting different CES NFS node , loading python modules - get Stale I/O in random steps. 1. Same python is used through the same script.2. We use autofs to mount...
29 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

DS8K - Copy Services - Mirroring Path GUI improvement

Currently in the Copy Services menu the 'mirroring path' reports the current secondary site with a wrong status. As visible in the attached screen print (visible here: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DS80-I-270), only the current prim...
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Is a defect

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