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    Add the ability to specify the key serving certificate when adding new key servers to the key server list via the WebUI

    I am performing an upgrade/migration of our SKLM 4.2 environment to SKLM 5.0. The key serving certificate for 4.2 is different from the key serving certificate that is being used by the 5.0 environment. On older Storwize/Flash Systems firmware, wh...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    When Safeguarded Copies are in place it should not be possible to delete a Mdisk (should be a part of TPI)

    At the moment, when you are using Safeguarded Copy, you can delete a VDisk of\and MDisk (even if TPI enabled). When deleting one or more Mdisks, Safeguarded Copy won't help you. So there must be a way to prevent deleting Mdisk(s) when SGC is in pl...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Implementation of DIMM error checking at IBM Storage Scale Systems

    It would be helpful to implement an DIMM error checking, which is raising a warning, when a memory DIMM is throwing to much errors.In the current ESS versions, we don't have such an checking in place. Massive recoverable DIMM errors will not be re...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    GPU operator automation - enhancement

    There are currently plans to automate the implementation of the GPU operator installation on detection of a specified GPU node. the operator automation process needs to completely deploy all the configuration of the Nvidia Operator including being...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Fusion HCI VM HCP clusters with GDP remote mount

    The reason for this feature is that many customers utilize Scale/ESS for their data storage and want to have the ability to directly access this data through remote mounts from containers running on VM HCP (Hosted Control Plane) clusters within Fu...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Fusion HCI with SAN HBAs for Fusion Access

    Fusion Access enables customers to use their existing SAN Block-Storage on OpenShift with our gpfs filesystem, which has significant advantages over block based CSI drivers!Unfortunately, this is only supported on Fusion SDS, as Fusion HCI does no...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Ship Fusion HCI with OCP and Fusion container images

    When installing into an air-gap environment it is expected to mirror a specific OpenShift release and the Fusion images, then import them into the client network and push into the client provided private registry. This process is not tested proper...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Sign kernel modules and enable secure boot on ESS

    ESS updates are delivered as a set of components already tested together, but are still building kernel modules locally during the upgrade. This wastes time (building modules takes a lot of time), and makes it impossible to enable secure boot. Sin...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

    QoS su Mellanox high speed switches

    We have a client who has a 100% Cisco managed network infrastructure. So the request is to enable QoS directly on Mellanox high speed switches on HCI in order to have proper management capability on our switches following Cisco/Client QoS rules. T...
    2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    When doing reclamation, recalls should go to other pool copy in 2nd library during reclamation

    This helps reclamation to go much quicker, not being paused by recalls on the same tape!
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

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