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Provide a possibility to Prioritize Work Load from customer side

TS7700 must provide a possibility to prioritize workload (Pre-Migration, Host I/O, Copy processes) on customer's demand. TS7700 can have several limitations defined, which may lead to situation where front end (host I/O) work load is lower priorit...
7 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Compatibility with VMware Cloud Director

Dear Support, I would like to suggest an improvement of Cloud Object Storage (COS on-prem). Just a background, we faced a limitation of our product Cloud Object Storage in a Public Auction (RFP) of a Governamental customer (Brazil). This customer ...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 3 Under review

ESS should be able to notify customers if there is filesystem corruption (currently they can't in their default configuration).

There is NOTHING worse than undetected filesystem corruption in a storage system. But, as shipped to customers, all ESS storage systems will NOT notify you if there is filesystem corruption. They can _detect_ it, but they can't notify the customer...
12 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Get Red Hat to work with Storage Fusion Backup & Restore

Enhancements to Storage Fusion Backup & Restore should be made, and certification steps undertaken with Red Hat such that it is listed - preferably as the top product - on Red Hat's web site for RHOS and RH Virtualisation vendors. Currently Re...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Monitoring quota usage per fileset (not inodes, capacity usage)

Hi team, we found a gap in quota monitoring of spectrum scale filesets, we have the capability to monitor inode usage per-fileset, but not quota consumption in terms of capacity. Becasuse of that we urgently need a feature that could alert us when...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Possibility to choose which events are send to external sylsog server /CLI command enhancement

At the moment, we can send logs to an external server. It contains some information as listed in the manual - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ds8900/9.3.3?topic=configuring-syslog-server. I would like to be able to select which events need to be sent ...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Support TLS 1.3 for use with IBM SKLM

Industry is requiring stronger current encryption levels.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Monitoring the number of I/Os prevented by Throttle for a vdisk.

This RFE is to have a monitoring / statistics capability of throttled volumes, to see how many I/Os exceeded the configured limit. This is useful for clients to adjust the throttle when too many I/Os are being "paced". Competition (HP storages) al...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Restrict access management based on OS type or agent type like VM Snapshot backup/SQL DB/ Oracle DB/ View etc

We can restrict to our platform team user based on their platform CI's/ Objects/Servers/DB etc. We can more effectively manage the RABAC solution for more granular level with additional option for user access management. With this user able to man...
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Needs more information

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