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Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Protect Syslog Server panel with Dual Control

What happen when a hacker will change IP for RSYSLOG server. Logs are no longer transfered to syslog server and nobody is able to no longer see what happens at the Library. Please protect Syslog Server Panel with Dual Control
23 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Need to protect Encryption Key Servers with Dual Control

In case a hacker can login to TS4500 web GUI via admin user. He can do several stuffs like switch on Library-managed encryption (LME)? Data is encrypted and can no longer be processed if the hacker drops the key server. Please protect the Encrypti...
23 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Get a cartridge lifetime report of entire library inventory via REST API

Current mount history report is limited to 100 entries. Options to retrieve required information is available: REST API option /v1/dataCartridges/SYD197L9 contains cartridge lifetime, but customer needs to filter out required information. Since TS...
23 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
2 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

"Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" metric available for reports

Currently the metric "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" is available to chart under Volume Group->Capacity, but it's not possible to include this metric in a report. This is essential to understand what each VM etc consumes in snapshots, for exa...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Update Cognos Analytics to a more current version

At this moment with Spectrum Control 5.4.12.x the Cognos Analytics version offered via Passport Advantage is still version 11.2.1.Latest fixes for this Cognos version are from January 2022. Our security department is demanding that we fix a number...
13 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Support of X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD-TRAILER] in SP Object Agent

We backup up native Kubernetes workload with native Velero to SP Object Agent. Since Velero Version 1.13 the backup to SP Object Agent is not working anymore. Velero 1.14 uses AWS 1.10 plugins which internally uses X-Amz-Content-Sha256:[STREAMING-...
17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

Defender data Protect KVM Support

Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

OSSM data offload to tape via stgrule

We need air-gaped copy of all our data stored in directory pool containers. Almost half of the data is OSSM, however storagerule actiontype=copy does not offload OSSM data to cpoy pool.
14 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted