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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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RDMA场景下网卡存算分离

计算节点有两种RDMA网卡:mlx_1和mlx_2 存储节点有四张RDMA网卡:mlx_1 mlx_2 mlx_3 mlx_4 我们想实现这么一种组网: (1)计算节点<->存储节点只使用mlx_1和mlx_2 (2)存储节点<->存储节点(pdisk client->pdisk server)只使用mlx_3和mlx_4
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)

Restore the scale config to - re-install OS (do not know who /how to solve the ssh issue after the new OS install...)
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Directory method upgrade to support efix package of core packages through open source ansible scale roles.

Directory method upgrade to support efix package of core packages through open source ansible scale roles.
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Directory method Installation and Upgrade support of scale deployment through open source ansible scale roles.

Directory method Installation and Upgrade support of scale deployment through open source ansible scale roles.
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Support APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles.

Support Local existing APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles.
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Disaster recovery from Storage Protect backup pool for big file systems

We are running multiple Storage Scale file systems in the multi Petabyte size. All data are in Storage Protect backup. The backup is very valuable in case of user driven data loss. But in the case of a disaster where the complete file system is lo...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Allow more data points in SI Performace graphs & tables

Max 272 data points in SI for a selected performance metric (both on graph and in a table) is very often insufficient, and should be increased to 744 or more. This would allow Hourly data resolution display/table for a 1 month period (31*24). Or 5...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add a SYSLOG option for console logs

In addition to having the option to view the console logs in the user interface add an option to offload to a syslog server similar to hardware platforms (DS8, VTS, etc).
about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Support Fibre Channel (FC) adapters on Fusion HCI for SAN connectivity

With Fusion HCI Control Tower and ability to created Hosted Clusters, there is a demand from customers to connect their existing SAN storage using CSI drivers. Therefore, we need Fusion HCI baremetal nodes to support FC cards - 32Gbps dual-port Em...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

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 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review