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RegionalDR support for External Ceph

For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is a good fit, rbd-mirror needs to support StorageClass ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd rather than the usual internal StorageClass ocs-storagecluster-ceph-rbd.
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Please add error in event log when offsite reclaim (at copy export operation) is being stopped in case of a logical volume residing on an inaccessible physical primary volume

We are doing copy export operation for safeguarded tape on a copy export only dedicated cluster. We had two times the problem, that a physical primary volume was inaccessible, which contained logical volumes that were needed for offsite reclaim op...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

Defender Data Protect support for OpenStack

Defender Data Protect currently lacks support for backup and restore of OpenStack environments that are commonly in use with many MSPs and large clients and Defender Data Protect needs to provide native backup/restore capabilities for this environ...
10 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Multi session restore from container pool should result in load balanced sessions

Technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993961 documents how to tweak the SDNQRSESSSIZE parameter for multi session restores, however the sessions created are not load balanced. This can result in the restore sessions not being...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Provide a UUID for each object that is replicated across multiple clusters (e.g. in PBHA / PBR / Flashgrid Configurations)

Objects such as volume groups or hosts that are being replicated in a PBR/PBHA config exist as individual objects with local IDs on each FlashSystem Cluster, although they actually are considered as unique objects in a cluster-overarching context....
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Tape Library Support

Add support for IBM tape libraries in Spectrum Control and Storage Insights to monitor code levels, performance of robotics, performance of tape drives and capacity of the library.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Planned for future release

Have Volume Group next scheduled snapshot be DST aware

When you have a daily snapshot policy setup for a volume group, the next scheduled snapshot is always 24 hours later. When daylight savings time is involved, this will lead to the snap shot being taken 1 hour later/earlier in the day (according to...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Automatically clean up binaries of old scale releases after updating the product

When upgrading Scale version (both server and client nodes) using published documentation, we noticed that old versions are accumulating in /usr/lpp/mmfs/ directories. # du -sh /usr/lpp/mmfs/* 717M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.1.9.3 385M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.2.0.1 ...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Incorporate CSR Generation Functionality into IBM TS7700 REST API

The IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine, currently doesn't have the capability of generating CSR. The need for streamlined certificate management has become increasingly critical. Currently, generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for the TS77...
7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

ACTIVE DIRECTORY BACKUP FOR PROTECT PLUS

One of the most asked feature by business partners and customers is support of Active Directory backup and granular recovery of AD with Protect Plus. Almost every our competitor has AD backup granular recovery of its objects.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration