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Allow use of directory other then /tmp for GPFS temporary files.

We use GPFS / Spectrum Storage on our High Performance Computing Cluster for it's primary file system and use various mm* commands to monitor the health of the cluster and alert us if GPFS goes offline on a node. If a users HPC compute job inadver...
6 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

Add a nickname parameter to the DSCLI commands mklcu, lslcu, chlcu and showlcu

The additional field can be very useful in multi-customer environments to add a comment (e.g. customer name) for each lcu.
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Proxmox VE - Backup with Storage Defender Data Protect

Allow Defender Data Protect to seamlessly integrate with Proxmox Virtual Environment without the need for an agent. This integration is requested by customers and included in RFPs to ensure the capability of performing VM-consistent backups and fa...
2 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Needs more information

Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
4 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

Add support for Cisco MDS SAN Switches running NX-OS

All (I know) current Cisco MDS Switches run Nexus based NX-OS. We have MDS9132T and MDS9148T switches which seems to not be supportet in Storage Insights. Please add support for this Switches. Thank you.
7 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Restrict TSM admin users

Please find a way to restrict TSM admin users to VIEW ONLY. In order to use third party monitoring software and use admin credential for TSM view only (admin schedule results, stg pools etc)
7 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Add Last Access Time to GUI Table

While managing volumes, I often want to see how long it's been since a volume has last gotten an update. This can only be done from the CLI (lsvdisk | grep "last_access_time"); but it would be nice to be able to see it in the GUI.
19 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for hosted bare metal worker

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

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