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Create PBR relationship from Replication ports - and not from Management Port 1only.

We are replacing Netapp Storage at customer which has 2 sites. They are doing replication between the 2 sites on dedicated layer2 network. We have FS5300, with 2 ports dedicated to replication , why the PBR must be configure from the primary manag...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Add Webinterface to Debian based Linux.

A customer have based most of their production on Debian based Linux distros (Debian and Ubuntu) with no GUI in the server install. In the BA client DEB package the WebClient module is missing, the RPM package TIVsm-WEBGUI.x86_64.rpm
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) Under review

Disable attempts to cleanup IBM Flash array snapshots after Devender SAN backup/restore

When the current version of Defender runs a backup or recovery operation for a SAN source, a snapshot will be created of the configured storage, the backup/recovery operation completed and then a cleanup of the snapshot is attempted. Normally this...
5 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) Under review

The VTS TS7700 should return other reason UNknown in TVILCAT when the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR.

When CBRXLCS macro want to change a category, i receive UN on LIBRARY MANAGER CATEGORY CONSTANTS FOR TVILCAT from CBRTVI macro.The VTS TS7700 return UN because the VTS is in write protect mode due to a DR and because the category DEVSUPxx is not e...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

Integrate GKLM into Defender for Key Management/Monitoring

Integrate IBM Storage Defender with IBM Global Key Lifecycle Management (GKLM) to enhance key management and monitoring capabilities. Objectives: Enable Storage Defender’s Disaster Recovery Service (DRS) to recognize and interface with GKLM server...
11 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) Under review

Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "traditional" license model

With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Support immutable object storage with retention sets to object (retention pools)

Immutable object storage features, such as AWS Object Lock or COS Retention Vaults is supported for object/cloud container pools, but NOT supported for object retention pools. This request is to support immutable object storage for retention sets ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Under review

With the introduction of Fusion Access for SAN, particularly with the Fusion Advanced for Virtualization licenses—which enable the creation of virtual machines—and considering VMware’s attack strategy, we understand that VMware delivers significant added value when customers deploy VMware ESX HA clusters in active/active mode using IBM FlashSystem with active/active Hyperswap storage. In this context, we would like to know if Red Hat OVE with a stretched cluster could achieve something similar using IBM FlashSystem in active/active Hyperswap mode.

With the introduction of Fusion Access for SAN, particularly with the Fusion Advanced for Virtualization licenses—which enable the creation of virtual machines—and considering VMware’s attack strategy, we understand that VMware delivers significan...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Preview of mmreclaimspace for a determinate threshold

The idea is to have a preview of the mmreclaimspace without actually running it to have an idea of how much space will be recovered by a certain threshold. This can be interesting due to the lower the threshold is, the more impacte in performance ...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Under review

Support for RHEL 9

Now when SPP is not going to be future develop and we need to run a VMware Backups using Dark Site software we falling back to IBM Storage Protect for VMware and we have test it on a RedHat Enterprise Server 9.2 and it works fine accept the servic...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Under review

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