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Fusion B/R Support for Vanilla Kubernetes

Add support to backup and restore Vanilla Kubernetes into Storage Fusion SDS & HCI.
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion Not under consideration

DS8K - DSCLI as a docker image

It would be great if IBM can offer the DSCLI as a docker image for zCX. As s390x architecture is already supported, it would be great to have this available as a docker image to reduce the overhead to manually install it. As the standalone DSCLI i...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

DS8880 - Increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server to 512

Sicoob is requesting IBM's support for to increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server and DS8880 to 512, once on VMware side this support is possible.
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 Not under 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...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - simple deletion of all default certificates

TSSC shall offer the option to delete all default certificates with a single click and allow to delete all expired certificates with a single click as well.
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

Proxy Support for Spectrum Protect Operation Center

Possiblilty to configure Spectrum Protect Operation Center (hub instance) to use a http/https proxy server for downloading client packages used for the client autodeployment feature.
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) Not under consideration

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Secure Passwords for TS7700 MI/GUI with local user accounts: longer passwords and also special characters

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the requirement to use Passwords with a Length of 21 Characters for administrative Accounts. Also we have to use Special characters, in addition to numeric and alphanumeric characters for higher Pa...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Not under consideration

For tickets that are showing on Storage Insights have a hyperlink to the IBM ticket

This will eliminate the need to copy and paste the ticket number into the IBM support site. The hyperlink will take you there eliminating the copy paste process as well as saving time
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Not under consideration

Add vdisk home tier option for provisioning policies.

Depending on the type of mdisk tiers in an easy tier enabled pool, newly created vdisks may have their extents placed on a non-preferred tier according to customer preference. For example, in a pool with tier0_flash and tier_nearline, new vdisk ca...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

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