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Enable cipher encryption on Fusion when doing remote mount of scale filesystems in Global data platform

When working with banking clients, all communication must be encrypted. Scale remote mounts can be done by using CIPHER encrpyion but the default used by fusion is authonly. We need to allow cipher auth in the remote mount fusion is doing when wor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Snooze alert in Storage Insights

As a SI user admin , I want to be able to Snooze a notification so that I can prioritize the work to be done
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC vPlex (VNXe/Unity)

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs and vPlex on VNXe/Unity for mission critical VMs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SVC - Pool level Migration command

When introducing new storage arrays and creating a new pool, it would be nice to have a pool migration command to completely migrate 1 pool to another to more easily decommission older storage in a more timely manner.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support IBM S3 interfaces provided by IBM products on SPP+

The only supported S3 interface from IBM is "IBM CLOUD SORAGE". Technote 1087149 lists the "s3 compatible storage providers" and there is not ONE product listed there from IBM. Spectrum Protect, and Spectrum Scale come to mind, but I am SURE there...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow client migration from VSNAP to OSSM and back again

Currently to migrate a client from OSSM to Vsnap storage requires deleting ALL recovery points for that client. This is worse than migrating to a different backup vendor. I have NO backups for that client simply because I want to change my backend...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Since Repository server will not allow SPP+ Catalog backup , support "S3 Compatible on TSM server", Then backup Catalog to S3 on TSM.

I have an open PMR because I already have TSM with a tape based Disaster recovery solution because I have no networked second site to use as a DR capability. We are not Internet connected with these systems, which removes typical S3 DR solutions, ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC Compellent

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs. Customer also use vPlex+VNXe for mission critical VMs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale and Flashcopy integration to migrate data (files) from one cluster to another cluster.

Dear, We have a customer who need to copy files from the production environment to the developement environment to offer to the developers the possibility to work with real datas. It is possible to used Flashcopied LVM volumes from one simple serv...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

ESS support RoCE lossy Network

ESS support RoCE over lossless setting by adapter and switch. But lossless network will limit the overall cluster size. We need ESS to support RoCE Lossy network. As we known, The full IB network has the best performance, followed by RoCE, and the...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

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