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TS7700 improve cloude connection on dedicated NIC

Currently to implement Cloud connection from FS7700 to any cloud provider the same NIC used for grid replication is used. To improve performances it is helpful to have a dedicated connectivity with additional NIC within VED
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

TLS Email Support

Today does IBM Storage Protect OC has support to email reports over email, but this hasn't been updated for a wild now and the supported protocol is a unsecure SMTP port 25 communcation and we can always create a SMTP tunnel to a Cloud SMTP Server...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

EasyTier Tier priority

Depending on the configuration or status of the pool, EasyTier might place initial data on a lower. This can result in poor performance as new data is added to a system.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Sync and Async DR for External/Remote Scale (Global Data Platform)

This feature request is to add sync(metro) and async(regional) DR support for Fusion software with remote scale (global data platform) storage.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Network resiliency enhancement - need mechanism for prioritizing control traffic over data traffic via QOS/PFC when RDMA is not enabled.

In a heavy workload situations, some clients are removed from the cluster as peer nodes are not able to communicate as heart-beat/control traffic stuck behind data traffic. Also explore, a dedicated VLAN(s) option for Control and Data traffic.
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux

Support for performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux on SI.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Report Spectrum Scale Event if FD hard Limit of Ganesha server is above the threshold.

Ganesha NFS server has a limit of max. open files, which is calculated by 80% of the maxFilesToCache parameter. If Ganesha Server is reaching this limit, Ganesha NFS server will stop working and all NFS clients will loose access to data. In curren...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

CNSA HashiCorp Vault Encryption Key Server Support

Add support in CNSA for using HashiCorp Vault encryption key server with Scale CNSA. Currently supported in normal Scale but not in CNSA.
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add support to "cluster" object in RESTful API

Add support for "cluster" objects in RESTful API, to be used for storage provisioning automation purposes.
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

Show commands when running script with multiple CLI commands

I work with CLI more often than with GUI when provisioning and configuring DS8000. There is a possibility to run multiple CLI commands using a text file. It works well and it is super useful. It would be nice to see commands that have actually bee...
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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