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Provide RWX Block Storage for Kubevirt/Openshift Virtualization

Kubevirt (https://kubevirt.io/) hugely benefits from the fact that you can do a live migration (like a vmotion) from VMs in a Kubernetes Cluster.Since VMs are just pods these pods cannot be migrated, but need to be created and deleted. To achieve ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 14 Planned for future release

Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

Tuning off Alert definition : remove 2017

Hi, From SVC 8.6.1.0 and 8.7.0.0 an new Alerte is noticed in Events Log : "2017 - One or more configured hosts are offline" So users receive by mail each time a 'host' become OFFLINE. We are using 'Flash Copy' every day so we are starting ang stop...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 7 Planned for future release

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'versioning' in S3 buckets

Versioning in Amazon S3 is a means of keeping multiple variants of an object in the same bucket. You can use the S3 Versioning feature to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your buckets. With versioning you can...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Notification'

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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

Object Lock for CES-S3

We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
3 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Lifecycle'

One common use of S3 lifecycle policies is to automatically delete objects after a specified period. For instance, businesses can set up a policy to delete temporary files or logs older than 90 days, ensuring that unnecessary data does not clutter...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Volume hot expansion support for PBHA solution

The client has two FS5200 and implemented PBHA, but is questioning that it is not possible to perform hot volume expansion, he requested documentation showing that it is on the roadmap.
20 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

S3 Object Lock Governance Mode support required

Herman IT is a typical MSP which sells COS S3 capacity for their customers. Customers are demanding immutability for their data for X years. These customers may have a contract with MSP which expires in 1-3 years. If their customer wants to set an...
3 months ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

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