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IBM Storage Defender Data Protect support for Oracle oVirt

Oracle oVirt (bought by Oracle from Red Hat). Per the documentation, oVirt (Red Hat) was supported until version 6.1.8. Now oVirt is part of the new Oracle, but not yet officially supported by Data Protect.
7 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

GUI : capacity information consistency

Different information/ mismatch between ‘used capacity’ and ‘total capacity’. Monitoring -> Files -> Filesets -> view details -> used capacity Due to the fact, that two file copies are made on the filesystem on ESS storage cluster , th...
7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Additional OS Support for Storage Defender Sensors

IBM Storage Defender includes Sensors that are invented by IBM Research and are first active AI-backed threat detection against malware filesystem activity tye of sensors in market. The additional file-level ransomware active threat detection prov...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Submitted

Allow multiple targets in an AFM-fileset (AFM-S3 only perhaps)

It would be good if we could have data coming from multiple sources in an AFM fileset. Perhaps a client has data that needs to be presented from NFS and S3. The application would have to talk to two different filesets to get data. The current use ...
20 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

Secure Passwords for TS7700 MI/GUI with local user accounts: longer passwords and also special characters

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the requirement to use Passwords with a Length of 21 Characters for administrative Accounts. Also we have to use Special characters, in addition to numeric and alphanumeric characters for higher Pa...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Password expire message on GUI

Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

Include environmental informations (humidity/temperature) into REST-API GET Drives and GET Library output

In order to ensure the operation of a TS4500 according to the defined environmental specifications, it must be possible to query these values directly without first collecting and evaluating drive logs and converting specific pages / hex codes to ...
28 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for Hosted Control Plane (HCP)

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

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