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Tape - High End Virtualization

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LWORM immutability

why is it useful? append is still a change, closer to an air gap solution who would benefit? Sheltered Harbor and applications seeking to create immutable copies on tape using LWORM how should it work? A global parm to allow or not allow a tape da...
9 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

TS7700 improve cloude connection on dedicated NIC

Currently to implement Cloud connection from FS7700 to any cloud provider the same NIC used for grid replication is used. To improve performances it is helpful to have a dedicated connectivity with additional NIC within VED
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Please upgrade the TS7700 rsyslog protocol to use TCP with TLS

The current TS7700 rsyslog communications protocol is TCP in the clear. By adding TLS encryption to TCP, the communications will be more secure.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Request for improvement that the deferred copies should start soon after demount.

Generally deferred copy is very useful to copy logical volumes to the remote clusters between long distance and to avoid longer job's elaps time than that sync or immediate copy consitency point brings on the grid configration.Today, deferred copi...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability to use RSA for MFA on TS7700s / TSSC

Add the ability to use RSA for MFA on TS7700s / TSSC On the DS8K line we can use RSA for MFA we'd just like to have this ability for IBM tape so we can use the same method for both IBM storage solutions. As of now I believe the only way for MFA on...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

add support for other KMIP server type

Today, only SKLM is supported to encrypt tapes. To simplify infrastructure, we would concentrate our KMIP requests to only one type of server. So our request is to have support for other servers.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 4 Planned for future release

Secure object information

We need the ability to store and secure object information (data in cloud) like: WORM, Expiration, Retention time etc…. As general, this function should be in TCT (DS8000) and in TS7700C.
almost 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tape

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tapeHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Closed ...
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range

The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a state that will prevent the tape from being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range of volsers from the TMC.
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Support for AWS Private Link and VPC

Allows for us to follow our personal best practices with sending the data over a VPN to our AWS tenant. We have a URL that we would like to put in for the communication which will resolve to our private IP. It looks maybe like you used to be able ...
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

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