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    Allow manual input of Storage Insights Tenant ID in system setup wizard (FS9600 9.1.2.1)

    Current implementation of FS9600 system setup wizard (9.1.2.1) requires internet access for the browser, apparently only for retrieving the customer's Storage Insight Tenant ID to be used in the subsequent underlying "chcloudcallhome -sitenantid x...
    9 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Identify SVC/IBM Storage Virtualize volume when RTD is detected on backend FlashSystem

    When Real-time Threat Detection/RTD detects suspicious activity on an IBM FlashSystem that is used as backend storage behind IBM SAN Volume Controller/IBM Storage Virtualize, the current event information identifies the affected backend FlashSyste...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 9 Under review

    Support SSH-less Deployment and Lifecycle Management for IBM Storage Defender DRS Sensors

    Many enterprise and regulated environments prohibit the SSH protocol on production Windows and Linux servers, including temporary access over TCP port 22. The currently documented IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service sensor deployment mode...
    20 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    Add the ability for a single host to have volumes from partition and local volumes

    Currently a single host definition have the limitation of having volumes from a partition or local, ww need to support a combination of those two, that will enable migration and various other scenarios especially in virtual environments. For examp...
    3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Need to have TSSC security information provide by RESTful API

    For TSSC devices attached to a VTS7700 there is a RESTful endpoint (/tssc/security/ldapAuthPolicies) that provide security details that are needed to provide evidence of compliance with security baselines. This includes information such as TSSC TL...
    21 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Submitted

    Enable NDMP NAS Restore to Alternate Filer Without Modifying Production Datamover Configuration

    Background / Context The customer currently, restoring NDMP NAS backups to an alternate NetApp filer requires modifying the production datamover configuration (IP address and drive path). As documented in the IBM technote: https://www.ibm.com/supp...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Submitted

    Need CSI driver support for use of mirrored volumes in SVC standard stretched cluster

    To create a volume with high availability (HA) (HyperSwap or stretched topology) on IBM Storage Virtualize® storage systems, put a colon (:) between the two pools within the pool value. For example: pool: demo-pool1:demo-pool2 Important The two po...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    SVC GUI SCU calculator

    SVC SCU calculation is physical capacity-based with a disk type conversion factor value (Calculation Terms: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/?id=L-PGBC-EPMNYG&lc=en). SVC GUI show the compressed space mounted; this is higher fro...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Ablity to refresh a thinclone from an unrelated snapshot

    The existing ability to refresh a thinclone volumegroup from a snapshot helps with automating repeated tasks and minimising admin in the server and OS infrastructure to discover volumes. In this operation the thinclone volumegroup is constraint - ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Enable Full Export and Correlation of Affected Files and Alerts in DMS Anti-Ransomware UI

    Currently, when an anomaly or ransomware detection event occurs within the DMS Security Anti-Ransomware interface, the “Affected Files” page does not provide a supported mechanism to export or download the complete list of affected files. At this ...
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

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