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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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Improvement of Automatical Certificate Distribution

It is possible to distribute a new certificate with help of cert_distribute.sh script.This script has 3 "actions" distribute, report and cleanup."distribute" make automatical distribution of new ceritificate in the form of 4 schedules for each dom...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Include IBM Spectrum Scale Bridge for Grafana in the Storage Scale DAE release

The Grafana bridge feature is very useful in determining overall Filesystem usage and performance metrics. Currently the incorporated Storage Scale GUI does not provide the same level of client filesystem utilization, this is where the Bridge for ...
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Adding NVMe support for ESXi and Windows HyperV to Policy Based High Availability (PBHA)

Clients want to exploit the host performance advantages of NVMe compared to traditional SCSI over Fibre Channel.
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Populate contact info for ticket creation from Storage Insights

Current ticket creation workflow from SI relies on the user entering name, email, phone number for each ticket. This data is used to find a matching support contact to use for the case. Customers get confused when the support ticket ends up opened...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Integrate S3 commands into the REST API

We have an automatic workflow which provisiones storage with the help of the REST API (and not mm* commands)Since we want to automate the S3 part, we need s3 commands in the REST API. So the request is to provide S3 administration via REST API, id...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Compatibility IBM Storage Protect Server version 8.1.24, running on AIX 7.3 servers.Backup tasks are executed using the NDMP protocol with shared paths from a NAS Isilon OneFS to version 9.7.1.7

Currently, the client has their backup system based on IBM Storage Protect Server version 8.1.24, running on AIX 7.3 servers.Backup tasks are executed using the NDMP protocol with shared paths from a NAS Isilon OneFS to version 9.7.1.7.It is possi...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

request for status updates on cloudera manager interface when we restart/start/stop services from CLI .

Hi Team, Documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale-bda?topic=installing-cloudera-data-platform-private-cloud-base-spectrum-scale You need to stop the HDFS Transparency nodes because the Cloudera Manager can only manage HDFS Transpar...
5 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Volume and Host move between Partitions on Flashsystem

We need the possibility to move volumes/LUNs and Hosts between partitions on the same system. The current Partition Design is very static and gives limited flexibility. This feature can be relevant if you want to split your current volume/LUN/host...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release