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    DR feature in Fusion Access for SAN

    Disaster Recovery (DR) feature in Fusion Access for SAN.
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

    Volume and Host move between partitions (split partition)

    We need the possibility to move volumes/LUNs and Hosts between partitions on the same system. The current Partition Design is very static and gives limited flexibility. This feature can be relevant if you want to split your current volume/LUN/host...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    SnapDiff-Support for ONTAP 9.18

    Could you please add Snapdiff support for ONTAP version 9.17 and 9.18? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613
    28 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Planned for future release

    Enhance the "Storage system performance monitor status" error message by adding potential causes and recommendations

    Today, an error (critical) is raised for "Storage system performance monitor status" without explanations or details. It is difficult for the users to understand the cause, the impact and the possible resolution related to this error. Many other e...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

    AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

    IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for Hosted Control Plane (HCP)

    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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Safe Guarded Copy - Enhance the Product to Allow SGC to Reduce or Increase Multipliers as Data on Volumes Increases or Decreases.

    The amount of data on our volumes can fluctuate up or down daily. A multiplier of three on a volume may be sufficient one day but be too small the next day, resulting in a failed backup. We then must increase the multiplier on that volume to preve...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Planned for future release

    Alerts notifications by mail should include all details for the alert and not only the link to the Aler in the SI instance

    SI alert notifications by mail should include the full description/details of the alert and not only the link to the alert in the SI instance. With this you will have at good overview of the "problem" with all details and no need to go to SI insta...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Storage Insights Global Mirror Average RPO Metric Request

    It would provide great value if Storage Insights could capture Consistency Group detail in the “Copy Data” section from the hardware and use that data to provide an Average RPO value by SYSPLEX or Consistency Group. Further, having the ability to ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

    Relaxing IP quorums placement dependency on the Ethernet ports where the service IP address is assigned.

    Currently, IP quorums for HyperSwap as well as Policy-Based HA configurations need to be connected to the systems' Ethernet port where the service IP address is being assigned. This current design of placing IP quorums prohibits having a secure ne...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Planned for future release

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