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Protect Syslog Server panel with Dual Control

What happen when a hacker will change IP for RSYSLOG server. Logs are no longer transfered to syslog server and nobody is able to no longer see what happens at the Library. Please protect Syslog Server Panel with Dual Control
about 22 hours ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Need to protect Encryption Key Servers with Dual Control

In case a hacker can login to TS4500 web GUI via admin user. He can do several stuffs like switch on Library-managed encryption (LME)? Data is encrypted and can no longer be processed if the hacker drops the key server. Please protect the Encrypti...
about 22 hours ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Get a cartridge lifetime report of entire library inventory via REST API

Current mount history report is limited to 100 entries. Options to retrieve required information is available: REST API option /v1/dataCartridges/SYD197L9 contains cartridge lifetime, but customer needs to filter out required information. Since TS...
about 22 hours ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Add mmchfileset feature to make a fileset temporarily read-only

When migrating data, we need to be able to guarantee that no data in a fileset has been modified during the duration of the migration. Adding a feature to mmchfileset which can make a fileset read-only on a temporary basis would fulfill that requi...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
9 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review
209 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
12 months ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

"Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" metric available for reports

Currently the metric "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" is available to chart under Volume Group->Capacity, but it's not possible to include this metric in a report. This is essential to understand what each VM etc consumes in snapshots, for exa...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for hosted bare metal worker

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...
24 days 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...
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

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