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Prevent TERMINATE of practice disks if a volume is online

In a session with practice disks, can you add an option to prevent TERMINATE if at least one of the practice disks is online please ?
23 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Add a nickname parameter to the DSCLI commands mklcu, lslcu, chlcu and showlcu

The additional field can be very useful in multi-customer environments to add a comment (e.g. customer name) for each lcu.
20 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

An option to edit the autorefresh timer of the FlashSystem GUI

The new FlashSystem GUI has a autorefresh function that is not editable.So if you are looking at the Volumes screen for example after a few minutes the screen refreshes and you are back at the top even though you selected a volume in the middle of...
4 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Add support for AlmaLinux OS

Almalinux is being used by several customers who are migrating from CentOS/RHEL to this new flavor. IBM Defender data protect does not currently support this OS.
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender 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...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review
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Enhancement to DS8K's HMC power supply redundancy

We request more power paths for HMC of DS8K. My customer had the incident that two IO enclosures (#3 and #4) fail in DS8886 and both HMCs were cut off from the power path, making the HMCs unusable. As a result, logging and remote support could not...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Needs more information

Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Add alerting for failed login on storage devices

It would be handy to be able to enable alert policies to send an alert when a user fails to authenticate when attempting to log into a system. I know that can be seen from syslog, but it would be handy to simply trigger an alert in Storage Insight...
9 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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