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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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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

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

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

Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 8.0

According to the support page, VMware ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x, 7.0.x are supported but not ESXi 8.0.x IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platforms https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv For lon...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

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

Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
6 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Future consideration

TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Policy Based Replication - Need a way to monitor how far out of sync destination volumes are from the source volumes for different Volume Groups

When adding IBM flashsystems to a monitoring tool (we have Zabbix), it can see the Volume Groups made on the flashsystems, but it is not able to get any information that shows how far out of sync the destination volumes are from the source volumes...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Free space on Flash Copy target devices after a Terminate command

A FC no-copy relation only copies data if the source has been changed (new data has been written). If the primary device has been fully updated all tracks have been copied to the target device and thoses devices are no more in a FC relationship. W...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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