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    Reintroduce the option in the GUI – Modify Mirror Sync Rate

    A few days ago, I had a customer complaining about slow mirror synchronization performance.He even went as far as threatening to return two FlashSystem 7300 units because of the perceived sync speed issue.He was only convinced that there was no st...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    SafeGuarded copy enforced retention

    Currently SGC can be removed just from restricted security administrator, protected by 2-Person integrity (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-9x00/9.1.0?topic=security-two-person-integrity). To further enhance SGC protection, the proposal is ...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket

    A topic we discussed with the client was the ability to grant access on a virtual path level within a bucket. This can be achieved with bucket policies. However, in Scale S3 we do not support the Condition clause of a bucket policy. The condition ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Supporting half-populated R760 nodes in CD mode (concentrated dispersal mode)

    All generations of IBM COS hardware supported nodes with 12 disks in CD mode. We sold quite a few and when we need to replace them with newer generations (customers: Porsche Informatik, KSG, ...) we would need to have a solution similar to the exi...
    9 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Under review

    Allow choosing the snapshot name for a volume group

    Hello Development Team, One of our main FlashSystem platform customers in Brazil, the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), believes that, for a more customized experience, it would be important to allow choosing the snapshot name when a snapshot policy ...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    logical volume retrieve in cache - tool

    as IBM lab service unit, we would assist the customer to takeover some tasks the client has to execute by his own side when HW refresh is performed on new ts7700, or when a backup infrastructure change is in place. We need to be able to recall by ...
    8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    IP Quorum for PBHA Rescan Automatic

    IBM L3 told me this: When the application (IP Quorum) starts, it uses a configuration file that includes the management IPs of both systems but only the service IPs for the system where the app was created. If the app cannot contact the management...
    28 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Improvement of error logs and alerts to register warnings and evidence of error source

    Preventive node asserts/warmstart of Flashsystems occurs after the system detects a certain amount of errors. It would be interesting to see early warnings before the nodestart happens as well as clear indication of where these errors are coming f...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Allowing a host to be a member of multiple host_clusters

    Our strategic FlashSystem customers has requested an enhancement to improve flexibility in their environment. Today, a host can only be associated with a single host_cluster, which limits certain operational scenarios. The 1:1 restriction creates ...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    mmdsh rest api command

    With the transition from ssh-based commanding to the Rest API, the functionality of mmdsh needs to be maintained. Currently, this command's functionality will no longer be supported once a cluster is migrated off of ssh-based communications. Many ...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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