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Monitoring and Alerting Local Filesystems Usage in Advance for IBM 9500 Nodes

Recently due to Node error 565 "Node internal disk is failing" due to /dumps full getting we discovered the impact where the nodes to be rebooted due to nodes reported in service state.. panel_name cluster_id cluster_name node_id node_name relatio...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

IBM_INSTALL_fs_usage to made permanent to avoid Node issues in iBM 9500

FA utility was designed to report on the usage of /data filesystem so that you would be able to monitor for the situation you encountered on case TS017213594 related to defect SVAPAR-98497. But we noticed this not built-in and its custom utility w...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

Policy Based replication - Keep the target volume mapped to the host when the source volume is removed from the source volume group

On Policy Based replication, When I remove a volume from the source volume group, it should only remove the volume from the target volume group, the volume should not get removed from the array or mapping. It should still be available under the ho...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Need support for vSphere Exclude VM tags in Plus

Customer has a huge number of vCenters supported currently by SP4VE and has invested in SP4VE plugin and tagging including using vSphere tagging to exclude VMs. Plus will limit this customer from moving off SP4VE to Plus if they have to code all t...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support RHEL as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server

Now, it is only supported SLES 15.4 as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server. But, my client and many customers in the world are using RHEL(x86_64) as OS for IA-Linux environment. Providing additional SLES, not RHEL is an unacceptable requirement fo...
11 months ago in Storage Defender 2

Ability to limit io per user for gpfs fs for a node/server

Client need the ability to impose restriction on IO that a user can open on a compute server via cgroup or any other method. They currently have cpu and ram limit per user but users seem to overload io request that retards system responds.
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Fusion Data Foundation as a Service on ROSA

There are many OpenShift use cases on ROSA. If we can provide Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as a Service on ROSA, that will be useful solution for those cloud users. Such a cloud user usually don't want to install Software by themselves, they basic...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

Ransomware detection functionality for IBM Storage Protect.

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to detect possible ransomware attack on backed-up and/or archived data. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to provide such functionality because IBM Storage Virtualize on I...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add support for Rapid7 SIEM

Storage Defender SIEM integration obviously provides many benefits.Rapid7's InsightIDR SIEM is used for our Production SIEM. Please add support for Defender to integrate with InsightIDR SIEM, or at least the capability to receive and log events se...
23 days ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

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