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    Request to add a feature that allows administrators to check the amount of data stored in each bucket or user/user group.

    When providing Deep Archive like a cloud service, it is necessary to check the usage amount for each user with administrator commands and charge according to capacity, as well as issue warnings for “excessive use.”
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    Support for SUSE K8s

    would be useful to have more than OpenShift in the field
    21 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Replicate backups to S3 object-lock repository (e.g IBM COS, IBM Ceph)

    Many of our IBM clients have listened to our cyber resiliency messaging and looked to re-introduce a "3rd" copy of the data. In alignment with industry standardization for "321" backup methodology it is important to have an isolated and secure rep...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 4 Future consideration

    DS8K - Multiple local user support when AD/LDAP is configured

    In DS8K - post configuration of AD/LDAP, it allows only one user in addition to LDAP users. Since we have local users created for different purposes (for e.g. CSM replication user, Spectrum Controller user, Monitoring tool integration users, Servi...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

    Support request for Tx and Rx power metrics on SAN switches to monitor possibly faulty SFP transceivers

    One of my customers wants to monitor the SFP transceivers' power levels, both transmit and receive, on their SAN switches, because they have had link failure issues caused by faulty transceivers in the past. I know it is hard to diagnose those iss...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Automatically assign cartridges to volser range instead of keeping them only in VIO

    Currently (1.11 firmware level) only 255 cartridges can be inserted in the library without running checkin libvol/label libvol as they fill up the VIO slots of the library.As we often add a batch of a few thousands to increase capacity, this alway...
    9 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Authorize to set different IP for the NTP server on VTS7780

    Today it is impossible to configure different IP addresses on the clusters of a GRID of VTS7780. The VTS are generally installed on different and remote sites.An NTP server is available on each of the sites, but they have different IP addresses. I...
    2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    SED support using TPM on ESS3500

    We are requesting the addition of "SED support for TPM" to be included on the ESS3500 platform. This will provide the necessary encryption and simplify and streamline the installation and maintenance of the combined cluster including the ESS3500/S...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

    Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 8.0

    According to the support page, VMware ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x, 7.0.x are supported but not ESXi 8.0.x IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platforms https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv For lon...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

    Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

    Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Under review

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