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FlashGrid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

FlashGrid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other actions...
23 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Check update recommendations against the configuration of the system before notifying the user

Today the GUI for a FlashSystem/SVC will notify a user of a new code release of Storage Virtualize, but it does not take the specific configuration of the machine into consideration. Before you actually do an upgrade, the tool called CCU checker i...
30 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Submitted

Requesting Storage Defender Development team to expedite development of support for Defender Sensors for Aix Os

In most of the engagements in select accounts in India , there is at least a 50 % prevalence of Aix hosts , I suspect the case to be similar for multiple accounts in ISA & APAC region. While currently we have sensors for Rhel 9 , Suse & Ub...
28 days ago in Storage Defender 6 Future consideration

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'versioning' in S3 buckets

Versioning in Amazon S3 is a means of keeping multiple variants of an object in the same bucket. You can use the S3 Versioning feature to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your buckets. With versioning you can...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Notification'

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration
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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...
12 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Lifecycle'

One common use of S3 lifecycle policies is to automatically delete objects after a specified period. For instance, businesses can set up a policy to delete temporary files or logs older than 90 days, ensuring that unnecessary data does not clutter...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for Object Lock on IBM Ceph as an object target for Commvault

Testing required for object lock with Commvault using Ceph as the object target. Customer requirement for capacity of approx 2.6PB Ceph system with support for immutability.
23 days ago in IBM Storage CEPH 2 Submitted

Add the possibility for SP4VE to be able to force the format of the VM drives, during restores, to EAGER ZEROED.

(See case number TS016942043 for details) Even though VM disks are formatted as thick eager zeroed, SP4VE formats them as lazy zeroed during restores. This causes problems on the VCenter's end and additional work for the VM administrators.
29 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

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