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Object Lock: Limit retention to a maximum number of days and add an option to disable COMPLIANCE lock on a bucket

Add configuration on bucket or container vault or both that limits the maximum number of days allowed when using object lock. Configuration can be made using service API or GUI as this is not something supported on s3api. Another option that might...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 1 Submitted

Allow PVCs to use storage class with waitForFirstConsumer volumeBindingMode during restore operation

In multi-availability zone (AZ) environments, when a PVC is created with the volumeBindingMode set to Immediate, it is pre-created within a random availability zone. When the pod is created later to consume it, if it is not created in the same AZ,...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Functionality already exists

Need ability to toggle interfaces back to undefined from SCSI or FICON

This would make is easier to determine which interfaces are actually in error for loss of light.
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

Offline/manual install of Defeder Sensors in VMs

Defender Sensors are currently only installable from the DRS UI. Installation/upgrade from DRS require network connectivity and FW openings from the on-premises Connection Manager(s) directly or through a Defender Sensor Control node to the VM(s) ...
5 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data Prote...
8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Allow copy suspend of PBHA partitions

In a PBHA environment the partnership between Flashsystems can be stopped suspending the copy and then when it is partnership is re-started the copy resumes (no need to a full resync). It should be possible to stop the copy at partition level to a...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

SnapDiff-Support for ONTAP 9.18

Could you please add Snapdiff support for ONTAP version 9.17 and 9.18? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Planned for future release

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for Hosted Control Plane (HCP)

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Safe Guarded Copy - Enhance the Product to Allow SGC to Reduce or Increase Multipliers as Data on Volumes Increases or Decreases.

The amount of data on our volumes can fluctuate up or down daily. A multiplier of three on a volume may be sufficient one day but be too small the next day, resulting in a failed backup. We then must increase the multiplier on that volume to preve...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Planned for future release

Detailed information about a problematic inode

“When we encounter an issue caused by or impacting a specific file which leads to deadlock conditions in the file locking functionality that scale supports the Scale development is able to provide us with an inode value after analysis of gpfs.snap...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted