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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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Allow multiple REST sessions per user

We wrote some checks for an external event management system that query several parameters and events from the storage arrays through REST API. As we have multiple checks and a clustered event management infrastructure we sometimes have 2 or more ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Add command ts4500cli.jar like 'saveMountHistory'

We need to keep track of tapes and their usage. Connecting to the tapelibrary every hour to download mount history is not a practical solution. This can be automated if the cli has a command like saveMountHistory where the last XXX mounts (or mayb...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

Add Optional Timeout Value for AoS Enablement

The TSSC home screen has a button that allows a user to Start or Stop AoS. This functionality could benefit from allowing an optional timeout value that would specify the maximum amount of time AoS can remain enabled. This is useful because allowi...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

Allowing to mapping CES address to fixed interface

The current design is alis CES ip to one of interface or the interface has the fixed ip in the same subnet. This is not flexibile and will wast of fixed ip. Customer hope to support static CES IP mapping that can assign CES IP to dedicated etherne...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

add "estimated time to full" on the reports

The on prem version of Storage Insights has the ability to have a column with "estimated time to full", which is important to our environment, this is not available on the cloud version of the software.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Functionality already exists

Add 'fail-back to local' authentication for Remote Authentication users

Ideally, for Cyber-Security, all Spectrum Virtualize logins should be set up for Remote Authentication, with MFA (Security Verify/future ADFS?). And the Superuser account would be the only Local account, disabled per SGC Best Practices. However, ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Functionality already exists

RDMA场景下网卡存算分离

计算节点有两种RDMA网卡：mlx_1和mlx_2 存储节点有四张RDMA网卡：mlx_1 mlx_2 mlx_3 mlx_4 我们想实现这么一种组网： （1）计算节点<->存储节点只使用mlx_1和mlx_2 （2）存储节点<->存储节点（pdisk client->pdisk server）只使用mlx_3和mlx_4
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Make fcp port power statistics available via CLI

FCP port power going marginal is cauing performance issues at customers. Customers want to monitor for port power for proactive management instead of getting intermittant errors which happens when the power drops below good power levels.
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

ECE edition 5.1.9 version support 256 storage node in one cluster

as title, we need 5.1.9 version（LTS）support 256 Necessary
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

Requesting RHEL9.x support for Spectrum Control

Since you support RHEL7 (which is EoL now) and RHEL8 it would only be logic to also support RHEL9.x (which was released over 2 years ago). As we have tons of servers now migrating directly from RHEL7 to RHEL9 the support for it would be tremendous...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Functionality already exists

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