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Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode

Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode e.g. AES-256-XTS
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Add number of mounts to REST GET DataCartridges response

With the new media lifecycle information provided in mount history report and via REST, clienst will also want to know the number of mounts for cartridges. The mount history report provides the mount count, the REST API doesn't. For automation pur...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Create flashcopy from "Volumes by hosts and clusters" view

It would be great to be able to create flashcopies from other places than "Copy services", like "Volumes" or "Volumes by hosts and clusters". Today, you need to first check what volumes are attached to a specific host or cluster and then go into "...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

DS8 Create Volume Sets Summary View Should Include Column to Show if Volumes are to be Mapped to a Host/Cluster or Not

In the Create Volumes view in DS8 9.3 GUI, when we create a new Volume Set and Save it, the summary table of volume sets to create includes Volume Name, Pools, LSSs, Volume Addresses, Capacity, and Provisioning, but there is no indication in that ...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8 2 Improvements to Create Volumes from Host Context Menu

When a user chooses the Create Volumes option from the Host context menu, that it limit down the provided options to volume types that are actually compatible to the Host Type. Eg if the host is AS/400 then only include "Create Volumes for IBM i"....
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

We need the ability to convert a Thin Clone recovery into a Full Clone recovery.

While a Thin Clone is desired for testing of a snapshot recovery, a successful validation requires a second recovery of the snapshot in order to obtain volumes not dependent on the source volumes. Without removing the dependencies, volumes with de...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Keep the base hardware relationships on the storage system: by default

When removing copy sets from the Safeguarded Copy session, the following options are available: Remove the hardware relationships (option by default) Keep the base hardware relationships on the storage system. A customer would like that the “keep”...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Provide RWX Block Storage for Kubevirt/Openshift Virtualization

Kubevirt (https://kubevirt.io/) hugely benefits from the fact that you can do a live migration (like a vmotion) from VMs in a Kubernetes Cluster.Since VMs are just pods these pods cannot be migrated, but need to be created and deleted. To achieve ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 18 Delivered

Increase the maximum number of consistency groups

We need to support more than 32 consistency groups (idealy double). We have a customer that is using a DS8k in Open (non-Z environement) and this limitation have an impact to current installation but also to any feature DS8k installations . For ex...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Scheduled Task Creation and Modification commands are needed for REST API and CLI to automate Volume Group Snapshot configuration.

The newer version of Safeguarded Copy in the FlashSystems does not have the sessions automatically imported like the Legacy FC based Safeguarded Copy did. Everything is available to automate this process via the CLI or REST API except the Schedule...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

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