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Add offical Support for s3A semantics in CES-S3 Protocol

Our complete Bigdata-Workload are going to use s3A Function to store Data in s3 Buckets. We see no offical support statement from IBM. Please add these to the supportet list of function in usage of s3A. Noobaa as the Base support this why mms3 not...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Defender data Protect KVM Support

Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
7 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Adding Support of Noobaa Metrics with Integration in Zimon Sensors

Currently the existing mmces protocols has integration of metrics in the zimon Sensor Framework, but the newest one, mms3 (noobaa-core) don't. We use the current zimonGrafanaBgridge to visualize these Metrics in Grafana. The current available func...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Introduce COPYONCE functionality for CSM Global Mirror devices, similar to that within GDPS

I am writing to submit a request for enhancement to the Copy Services Manager (CSM) software. We believe that the addition of COPYONCE functionality, similar to that within GDPS, to CSM would greatly simplify the management of Copysets. Specifical...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Associate Multiple Sysplexes on different type of sessions

Allow to associate multiple sysplexes to one session to support features as Hyperswap for SAS and shared volumes. As implemented in CSM 6.3.10 for 4 sites replication enhanced sessions we would like to be able to associate multiple sysplexes to a ...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Ability to limit io per user for gpfs fs for a node/server

Client need the ability to impose restriction on IO that a user can open on a compute server via cgroup or any other method. They currently have cpu and ram limit per user but users seem to overload io request that retards system responds.
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

REST API for mms3 - enhancement: create S3 user

Currently a REST API call to create a new S3 user account is missing, This is needed for several client applications. The AWS REST API and client provides this function which is currently used by a client application... workaround to create user a...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

[Fusion Backup] Add resource check list at restore time

When we execute a restore we can select if we want restore all PVs or just check a specific one. It would be great to add same functionality for resources so customer can select a specific ConfigMap or specific Secret instead of recovering all. If...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

SCDM support on Other Hypervisors such as KVM, Hyper-V ... and also make it available as a standalone binary to de deployed on both PowerVM (Linux and/or AIX) and x86 Linux.

With the recent VMware licensing changes a lot of customers has moved away from it and adopting other hypervisors. In Sentinel Bundle the SCDM component which plays the role of external orchestrator to the storage is only supported on VMware see h...
8 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Minute level snapshot policy for granular point in time restore

We would like to get minute level snapshot policy for granular point in time restore which allows our users to have and ability to go back in time in case of any issues. Now the policies are available only for hourly, daily and weekly. On our curr...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

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