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    data tiering of block (ranges ) within a file

    A file needs to be able to be located partially on multiple storage TIERs, depending on various specific conditions like policy rules, selectable by ranges in Bytes or #blocks, rules for file names etc..The goal is that data within one single file...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    [Copy] Open AOS for TS4500 and TS770 via TSSC REST API Call

    (I have opened this case in the TS4500 product area because I cannot select the TSSC (TS3000) in the product area in the IDEAS portal) We want to open AOS (Assist on Site) access via a REST API call to automate and speed up internal processes. The...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    Add FIPS compliance to the tape library to enable Key Manager integration with the IBM Guardium product.

    Guardium uses FIPS by default. Without FIPS compliance the Diamondback library acts as a lowest common denominator for Guardium forcibly weakening the security stance of all products using the same Guardium instance e.g. Spectrum Scale. A minimum ...
    4 months ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Under review

    IO pause data capture for both controller during code upgrade or node maintenance activity of IBM 9500

    During an upgrade of IBM 9500 Flash Systems, even if logs are collected immediately, we will get IO pause data from 1 node only. This is impacting the investigation during production issue due lack of logs & evidence of IO pause which is not g...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    IBM Block CSI Driver support for FIPS-mode OCP

    Customers running OpenShift Container Platform in FIPS-mode would be able to leverage IBM FlashSystem block storage for container workloads. Today, deploying the driver on a FIPS-enabled OCP cluster fails HostDefiner object creation with "ValueErr...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Storage Scale performance is extremely sensitive to network and backend latency, there must be a mechanism to monitor those critical KPI

    It would help both system administrator and IBM Support to be able to quickly identify the key issue and be able to isolate the bottleneck to address critical performance issues.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

    Safeguarded Copy offload to Cloud via TCT

    We are looking to have the ability to offload Safeguarded Copies (LCP) to the cloud via TCT (preferably S3 cloud) and maintain the capability to create a recovery copy from any of the offloaded Safeguarded Copies. Today due to physical capacity li...
    over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Add Deleting Volumes to background processes when removing from DRP pool

    When we've deleted volumes from the GUI they had removed but when we went onto the cli it showed these as deleting, this would be useful to show in the background tasks as then we could have seen these were still being removed off the storage as t...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

    Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Customer should be able to check the installed VTD_EXEC's via REST-API

    Provide a way to query the installed VTD_EXECs via REST-API GET request. Might just be added to the /GET/clusters/id request.
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

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