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dsmadmc login prompt when using MFA

When logging in to dsmadmc having MFA activated on the account you do not get any indication on the password prompt that this is active. Suggestion either have a message that you need to enter password plus mfa code Or Rather Present the mfa passw...
7 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted
209 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
19 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Submitted

Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
29 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Support for native velero v1.14 backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

Currently Velero v1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] and IBM are currently not supporting this. To support this code changes to storage protect object agent side are needed.
16 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Customer should be able to check the installed VTD_EXEC's via REST-API

Provide a way to query the installed VTD_EXECs via REST-API GET request. Might just be added to the /GET/clusters/id request.
21 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Functionality already exists

Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
30 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Frame swap challenge when using Delayed Premigration. I call it "Autonomic prepare of frame swap when using Delay Premigration”

Below idea is related to frame swap from old TS7700T subsystem to new TS7700T. Meaning virtual tape having a backend Tape Library(ie TS4500) and backend Pdrives/Pvols. When preparing frame swap, due to hardware renewal, you need to be well prepare...
22 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Under review

Installation DSCLI via Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

In the past we used DSCLI on Windows. In this environment we got informations about the software itself and security vulnerabilities automatically via a software management tool. If there was a breach or new version we got automatically informed. ...
19 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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