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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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Develop or update API to show compression information in GEN10 for pools and devices

This information will help to monitor the growth of the data in the DS8K. It's actually availlable in DSCLI but not in API.
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

SVC spare node functionality at Flash Grid level

Currently, SVC spare node is assigned to a SVC cluster. With new Flash Grid approach and storage partition mobility, only single I/O groups are supported. Thus, a natural evolution of multiple I/O group SVC clusters would be multiple single I/O Gr...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Support for Ubuntu 22.04

As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

To use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication as primary storage pools.

We want to use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication, as similar as for DEFINE STGPOOL (Define a retention storage pool) with cloud device class, but for normal primary stgpool. Compression and encryption should be possible, but wi...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Integration of a detailed, consolidated and exportable reporting feature for Fusion B&R across hub and spokes

I would like to suggest integrating detailed reporting into Fusion Backup & Restore, which can be exported as a CSV file, for example. In the Fusion UI and in OpenShift, some information about the applications on the hub cluster can be found u...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

HA GUI synchronization for notification events

Changes to notification events are currently not synchronized to secondary GUI node in an HA GUI configuration. This lead to the problem, that I have to perform the "Mark as read" function for several GUI events at each GUI node separately, to get...
7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Assign an alias right at instance creation

When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

SED support using TPM on ESS3500

We are requesting the addition of "SED support for TPM" to be included on the ESS3500 platform. This will provide the necessary encryption and simplify and streamline the installation and maintenance of the combined cluster including the ESS3500/S...
2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Need support for Microsoft Authenticator as MFA

Microsoft's MFA is a very popular MFA and with Microsoft's solution compassing all enterprise needs, even MFA capability are being adopted as standard in large clients. Hence this integration is being asked from 18 months. Please consider it on pr...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Under review

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...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

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