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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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Add Fusion Backup & Restore in OpenShift Dedicated (OSD) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Platform Support Matrix

IBM Fusion Software documentation normally adds separate entries/rows to the platform support matrix (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.9.x?topic=services-fusion-platform-support-matrix) for managed-OpenShift platforms. The current mat...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

checkMK . FlashSystem Plugin update

Some of our customers use Checkmk as their monitoring tool instead of IBM Storage Insights. To ensure compatibility and optimal performance, it would be beneficial to update the current plugin to support the latest IBM Flash System Family.
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

DS8000 Submitting a Test Call Home Case

This would be useful to make sure a call home case gets submitted to IBM Support. The test call home feature is good, but would like it to be more comprehensive. This shows that its able to make a connection and is able to create a case after let'...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

GUI : capacity information consistency

Different information/ mismatch between ‘used capacity’ and ‘total capacity’. Monitoring -> Files -> Filesets -> view details -> used capacity Due to the fact, that two file copies are made on the filesystem on ESS storage cluster , th...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Storage Protect client and possibly server Linux on ARM (ampere computing)

We are evaluation running more workloads on ampere computing (containers but also std vms)I would like to use storage protect client for backup/archiving as step1 and also interested in the serverside if We cant run AIX or Linux on power then the ...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

Need better job and resource management feature to avoid multiple simultaneous job start upon SPP restart after unexpected outage

The current IBM Storage Protect Plus design makes that, upon appliance restart after an unexpected outage, all pending jobs are started simultaneously. This can overwhelm the appliance available resouces if numerous jobs are pending. As an example...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

run the Fusion Data Catalog under podman

This would allow more Scale customers that are entitled to Fusion Data Catalog Service to run it without additional infrastructure to run. Podman could run the Fusion Data Catalog service on a Scale System utility node. We would have more adoption...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Snapshots on ChildPool

today you can only create snapshot-policy which makes the snapshots on the same pool the volume is already on. and in our scenario we are using Child-Pool for snapshots to prevent risks of cyber attacks when snapshots are filling the primery pool ...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Background Processes not visible in SVC-GUI (Code Level 8.7.0.1)

Hello Team. A few weeks ago we upgraded one of our SVC's from code level 8.6.0.3 to 8.7.0.1. Since we are on 8.7.0.1 (also happened with code level 8.6.0.3) we are wondering why no background processes (such like vdisk mirroring, volume formatting...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

Need to improve the speed of deleting a large number of small files

when deleting a large number of small files, most of the deleted ones are reclaimed in the background asynchronous process of fullscandeletion, but the process of space reclamation is relatively slow
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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