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More focus on stretched Scale for HA with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: A stretched OpenShift cluster (2AZ+Arbiter) over two sites (Fusion HCI/site) where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using fa...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Improve handling of Snapshot (hidden FCMap in stopping state) cleanup

Currently, there isn't much to indicate that a FlashSystem is having a hard time doing it's VolumeGroup Snapshot cleanup. If you look at the VG in the GUI, you'll see that the count of snapshots is greater than the number of snapshots that are act...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

More focus on stretched Scale for DR with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: Two separate OpenShift clusters (DR), one/site where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using failure groups.
5 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Allow the scan job definition to automatically handle changes to the application instance name, eliminating the need for manual updates to the scan job definition

Currently the CDM scan job definition root selection has the server's name and instance name. This condemns us to change the CDM job spec every time that the source is updated (typically at least 2x per year). The scan job will fail if this is not...
25 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Add Iogrp Memory (FlashCopy, Replication, Mirror) as a Capacity item, tracked over time

The Iogrp memory is a limited resource on the flash system (I understand it will continue to be even once memory paging is added), that impacts the system's ability to do basic functions, like taking a snapshot. We should track this over time, so ...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Under review

Optimizations to the Spectrumscale ansible installer for larger clusters

For large clusters we are finding that it is taking a rather long time to run. We are looking for optimization like skipping unneeded checks and/or more parallelization for better performance and minimize customer downtime upgrade windows. One are...
15 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Allowed DRS sources vs remote locations (ROBO)

We currently have 2 onprem clusters for DP configured within DRS. We have those 2 discovered and scanning/reporting within DRS. We also added multiple Vcenter connections to DRS, which manages our clusters onprem as well as remote sites where ROBO...
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) Submitted

Provide a way to acknowledge backup status of "Without backups" instead of using the Exclude button, which relates more to the Recovery Group feature.

With DRS scanning our environments, it discovers VMs that are "Without Backups". Some are indeed to look at, but many are VMs that do not require backups. Test machines, lab servers, POC VMs etc. It would be nice to have a way to acknowledge this ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) Submitted

Increase REST API max requests per second limit

The limit is currently 3 requests per second. For clients with more than a couple environments running concurrently (snapshots, replication changes) this results in significant delays or even failures when using the REST API's.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) Submitted

Enhance removal procedure for unused / obsolete gplbin packages

Currently, the rpm packages built with mmbuildgpl include an unspecific script which stops GPFS as soon as the package is uninstalled, regardless whether it is actually used or if it is an outdated version (belonging to another combination of Linu...
5 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

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