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Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

DS8K - DSCLI as a docker image

It would be great if IBM can offer the DSCLI as a docker image for zCX. As s390x architecture is already supported, it would be great to have this available as a docker image to reduce the overhead to manually install it. As the standalone DSCLI i...
20 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of DS8000. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Containerized AFM node

We would like to have a containerized AFM node as an option in Fusion. Also, what type of encryption would be used in storage?
27 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

Pause option to resume automatic upgrade in GUI post node service for hardware issues

When a node is serviced for hardware issues during upgrade process, the previously selected option of pause after each node is ignored and rather it goes with fully automated upgrade process without any pause if resumed the upgrade. Basically, we ...
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

add a NTP server for the rsyslog time of TSSC to be synced with external NTP

When I logged in to TSSC on one of our devices I noticed that the syslog had printed that I had logged in 19 minutes before I actually had... After raising this with IBM they told me the following: The 3957 TSSC that we use to log in and out of th...
22 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Needs more information

Password Policies for TS7700 MI/GUI for local user accounts like the TS4500 GUI/MI password policy setting

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the Requirement to use secure Passwords with certain Criteria of Length and Characters contained in the Password. To ensure that every TS7700 User Account meets these Requirements, we need a Passwo...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

add option for the tgtread status

We are using CSM on open system to manage zOS LPAR. When we create replication, the option tgtread is at yes with CSM, which is not compatible with zOS. Can you add a checkbox to manage this option?
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration