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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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Add a Quantity field to the Licensed Feature Codes table in the MI GUI for TS7700

When installing new feature code licenses on the TS7700 GUI, there is not a quantity count for some of the features such as FC 5263. We recently ordered new licensed capacity for TS7700 (QTY 3 of FC 5263 for a total of 300TB). We got one key code ...
9 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

HashiCorp Vault Key Management support for FlashSystem / TS7700

TS7700 using FlashSystem Storage supports KMIP for external Key Management. As Clients look to deploy HashiCorp Vault as their enterprise wide key management support is needed to incorporate IBM Storage Solutions.
17 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Ability to launch embedded command line shell from the GUI

Most of the configuration work i do is performed via command line, it would be really useful to have the ability to launch embedded command line session/s from the service options menu, this way putty etc would not be required in a separate window...
18 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Coordinated snapshot of a single volume

use case: customer uses PBHA but has multiple db's in one volume group (due to limit on number of VG's); CLI would be sufficient (since it's integrated in a script)
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Enable bond1 (25GbE cards) with FDF (Lenovo nodes) to be used with VLANs and VMs

We noticed that currently the 25 GbE cards are mostly used for management/provisioning purposes. This fact got us thinking if we could use said network cards for a testing/development environment. The fundamental idea would be enabling a Linux net...
10 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

enable all deviceclasses in "del volhist t=dbb" command

When removing dbbackups via deleting volumehistory there is no possibility of retaining certain older backups in other device classes. The "del volhist t=dbb" doesn't recognise non-server deviceclasses. This would be a welcome addition for enablin...
19 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Submitted

Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted
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Enhancement to DS8K's HMC power supply redundancy

We request more power paths for HMC of DS8K. My customer had the incident that two IO enclosures (#3 and #4) fail in DS8886 and both HMCs were cut off from the power path, making the HMCs unusable. As a result, logging and remote support could not...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Continue CIM support

Applications like ServiceNow rely on CIM to retrieve data during discovery. Without CIM support (since version 8.6.1 and newer), new integrations (e.g. REST based) are required but not available. IBM already has/had the knowledge to provide a good...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Ability to configure PBHA and PBR between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

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