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    CES NFS - extended attributes

    Storage Scale (GPFS) does support extended attributes for the users like: > getfattr -d stephan.txt > md5sum stephan.txt 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt > setfattr -n user.md5 -v 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt &...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

    The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

    CES NFS - SLES as NFS Client on IBM Power Platform

    Many SAP Customers in Europe are running SLES for their HANA DB Workload on IBM Power Systems. Due to the current search for software that offers the customer HA cluster NFS (cNFS) server functionality, Spectrum Scale is an ideal solution. But to...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Hyperlink SP4C login from Defender landing page

    Customers who are seeking to purchase an end to end data resiliency platform have also indicated a need to backup cloud workloads from the same pane of glass. Storage Protect for Cloud is the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market and by me...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Future consideration

    Support for native velero backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

    In case of a non-OpenShift container environment, native Velero implementation can be used to backup containerized applications. Velero is able to write the backups to an S3 target, for which the Object Agent from the Storage Protect can be used.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

    Storage Nickname Column in the Storage Panel for DS8000

    For larger clients that have numerous DS8000s (or for any storage systems, I guess), it would be very helpful if CSM users could specify a customizable "nickname" for each DS8000 which would show up as another column in the storage panel. It would...
    9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    SPP to backup resources (metadata) from Kubernetes, not only pv, by namespaces

    We need support for backup of a namespace being not only able to backup and restore PV but also secrets, ConfigMaps, deployments, routes, services. of a Kubernetes namespace
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Easy way open IBM case for IBM Brocade SAN switch via Insight manager

    Currently, we have different models of Brocade SAN switches and FCIP routers purchased from IBM. The challenge is that when we need to open a case for hardware or software issues, it must be done through the IBM PMR portal. If this process could b...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus Backup Direct to Tape

    Need the ability for clients to leverage existing infrastructure such as tape libraries they have bought and allow Spectrum Protect Plus to offload directly to tape.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    GCP Cloud storage using Google Workload Identity federation support for IBM Fusion- Backup and restore as backup backend

    We need enormous amount of storage to host backup data from CP4AIOPS and Openshift Virtualisation and we are running out of Onprem storage . We have GCP storage available to us but it needs authenication via Workload Identity Federation . I can se...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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