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    Please add error in event log when offsite reclaim (at copy export operation) is being stopped in case of a logical volume residing on an inaccessible physical primary volume

    We are doing copy export operation for safeguarded tape on a copy export only dedicated cluster. We had two times the problem, that a physical primary volume was inaccessible, which contained logical volumes that were needed for offsite reclaim op...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    AFM - Caching of local filesystem

    Allow AFM to cache data from a "home" of a local filesystem mounted on a node. This could be a local filesystem on a single node or a shared filesystem such as HDFS fuse mounted or other mounted POSIX filesystem such as a Lustre/ZFS/XFS/etc...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Support for Gen 2 Storage Nodes in Fusion HCI Gen1 Rack with FDF

    Client who invested in Gen 1 HCI Racks with C01/C05 Nodes can add more capacity for bringing new persistent workload on OCP/Fusion Cluster. This can be achieved via testing C14 Storage Nodes in Gen1 Rack with C01/C05 nodes.
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Spine switches for Fusion HCI HA setups with FDF

    IBM Fusion HCI offers different HA configurations for data replication with Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as storage provider. Because FDF cannot separate the storage traffic into a dedicated storage network, the HCI uplinks and the customer networ...
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Enable Service Node to reinstall OpenShift on Fusion HCI

    In order to reinstall OpenShift on a Fusion HCI, an IBM SSR need to come onsite to redeploy the installation images on the nodes and reset the swtiches.This factory reset is called MGEN. The idea:Fusion HCIs that contain a service node could use t...
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Bundle for IP quorum hosted on an IBM cloud VM

    Some customers do not wish to deploy a VM for the IP quorum on a third site, in their environment. Competition offers an option where the Quorum is hosted and running on a cloud-based VM. It would be a kind of bundle: IP Quorum app + small VM on I...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Power off enhancement for node/system

    By moving the Power Off feature to service, we dont run into the "issue" with only local "power on" possible. Here we face different admins who can power off a node in troubleshooting not really thinking about that it can only be powered on using ...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Support External Ceph on Fusion HCI as the only storagesystem

    For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is the right fit (particularly for OpenShift Virtualization), support configuring External Ceph on Fusion HCI with no other storage defined (no GDP and FDF installed b...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    With the introduction of Fusion Access for SAN, particularly with the Fusion Advanced for Virtualization licenses—which enable the creation of virtual machines—and considering VMware’s attack strategy, we understand that VMware delivers significant added value when customers deploy VMware ESX HA clusters in active/active mode using IBM FlashSystem with active/active Hyperswap storage. In this context, we would like to know if Red Hat OVE with a stretched cluster could achieve something similar using IBM FlashSystem in active/active Hyperswap mode.

    With the introduction of Fusion Access for SAN, particularly with the Fusion Advanced for Virtualization licenses—which enable the creation of virtual machines—and considering VMware’s attack strategy, we understand that VMware delivers significan...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Improvement of SP command 'q job'

    Hello IBM Here is my idea: It will be useful to be able to improve the command 'q job' such that it is possible to use the stgrule name as parameter, to just see the jobs for that particular stgrule. We are using many different stgrules, and today...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

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