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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 for Active Directory Item restore

Today does IBM Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client only support to protect Microsoft Active Directory and do a total Disaster Recovery of Microsoft Active Directory. If we want to restore only one item in the Active Directory to get back from a ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

A seamless support for custom namespace

Currently, even though Fusion supports custom namespace, the procedure requires manual steps. For example, FusionServiceDefinition has to be patched to reflect the correct custom namespace.
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Ability to set Custom Retention Policies for Events and/or requirement for them to be "fixed" before removing them from the Dashboard

Per design, current Fusion versions includes the following events expiration policies: Information events lasts for 3 to 4 hoursWarning events lasts for seven daysCritical events lasts for 14 days These values are fixed and do not require the admi...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

GUI change of units how quota is set up

because we need this feature for better daily operation of capacities...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Easier or better method to mirror all required images for Fusion

Currently, there are a lot of steps required to mirror the images for Fusion installation. For example to have Fusion + Backup & Restore, we will have to mirror fusion images, then backup & restore images, then RedHat images, then the hotf...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

SI Pro updating frequency- SI is not updating some very crucial statistics very often

mQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. Hi Manish We have noticed that SI is not updating some very crucial statistics very often. For an example, volume group snapshots and po...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Enhancement Request - Automating audit operations to detect damaged extents, inconsistencies, and corrupted files in the background

Periodic runs of the audit containers command or using audit stgrule options are required to scan the chunks and detect any inconsistencies and damages. This is an intensive and manual operation that adds additional overhead to the Storage Protect...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Directory Container Erasure Coding

I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Group View by Location

Having a group view "by Location" would bring quite some releave and push effecientcy. With close to 200 Storage devices plus SAN Switches and 20+ Data Centers it would be beneficial for us to get directly the view of a single data center, rather ...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Access to AWS S3 buckets with object lock enabled via a VPC Endpoint

For security reasons we must access AWS S3 buckets via a VPC Endpoint. We also require that the S3 bucket has object lock enabled. We have set this up and tested it and it does not currently work. We are able to read/write to the S3 bucket via a V...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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