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Leverage Storage Scale CNSA shallow copy volumes for Fusion Backup

When using Fusion Backup & Restore to create external backup copies of Storage Scale based PVCs in Openshift (Scale CNSA or Fusion GDP), temporary volumes are created from snapshots and mounted to data movers. These volumes are full copies of ...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Delivered

Add GM Master Location to Global Mirror Info tab

With newer CSM sessions including multiple GM legs simultaneously, it would be very helpful to show the Location of the GM master in the display. This would help identify and differentiate the GM masters and lead to less confusion.
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Allow CSI driver for Flashsystem to define PortSet

The client is using FS9500 to automatically provision Block Storage to BareMetal Openshift servers through the IBM CSI Driver.As a shared infrastructure the client has deployed separated private network for each OCP cluster with Portsets.Today the...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

ibm.storage_virtualize.ibm_svcinfo_command module to have filtervalue options available for use

The ability to have the filtervalue option available would enable searching through lsvdisk to be a much more efficient when it comes to utilising the Ansible Collection. It would reduce the dependency on having to handle the large output from an ...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add back the small RPO graph on the Global Mirror Info tab

It seems the small RPO chart which used to be on the Global Mirror Info tab was removed in 6.3.8 although doesn't appear to have been publicized in the release notes. This was a very convenient immediate place to check recent RPO. Having to use th...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

CSM Primary to automatically reconnect to the standby server after the standby CSM task is recycled or vice/versa Standby reconnects automatically to Primary

Every time one of our CSM started tasks is recycled or if an lpar is IPL'd when the CSM started task comes back up it does NOT reconnect to either the standby or the primray (depending on which CSM task that was shutdow/restarted. The ability of t...
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Capacity-less child pools to use for QoS

Allows the use of QoS settings for pools of volumes to be different than other pools of volumes. This could be used for prod vs non-prod, or broken up by different business units for a customer.
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

CSI Block support for modern Operating Systems and Orchestration Platforms

The IBM Block Storage CSI Driver is missing Support for new Operating Systems versions (RHEL9, RHCOS 4.14/4.15, Ubuntu 22/23) and also for new versions of Orchestration Platforms (RedHat Openshift 4.14/4.15, Kubernetes 1.28/1.29). The Today Suppor...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Please provide OS support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for IBM Block Storage CSI driver

IBM Block Storage CSI driver already provided for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but this version is end of life april 2025. We and our customers plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in the next time.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

HTTP proxy support for fusion backup to S3

When doing fusion backups to S3, most of the customers are using HTTP proxy with validation to allow access to external sources. Currently this is not supported
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Delivered

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