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    Running Fusion HCI Hub Cluster on Compact 3-node Cluster nodes

    Hosted Control Plane is efficient way of consuming Fusion HCI.Many clients are asking also to move traditional VMs to OCP to run on OCP.Also there are more GPU workloads.This makes us provision multiple bare metal HCP clusters.We need to dedicate ...
    3 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

    logical volume retrieve in cache - tool

    as IBM lab service unit, we would assist the customer to takeover some tasks the client has to execute by his own side when HW refresh is performed on new ts7700, or when a backup infrastructure change is in place. We need to be able to recall by ...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    mmdsh rest api command

    With the transition from ssh-based commanding to the Rest API, the functionality of mmdsh needs to be maintained. Currently, this command's functionality will no longer be supported once a cluster is migrated off of ssh-based communications. Many ...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Improvement of error logs and alerts to register warnings and evidence of error source

    Preventive node asserts/warmstart of Flashsystems occurs after the system detects a certain amount of errors. It would be interesting to see early warnings before the nodestart happens as well as clear indication of where these errors are coming f...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Provide new LI REQ knob to choose the old and the new Premig method

    At the code level lower than R5.0 PGA1, it uses old Premig method. Number of simultaneous Premigs becomes the maximum when total data size in Premig queue is larger than PMPRIOR. At R5.0PGA1 or higher code level, it uses new Premig method. Number ...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    3 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    DS8K - HMC must support at least 4096-bit RSA keys

    Currently DS8K only issues 2048-bit RSA keys which is not sufficient anymore.
    about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    QoS su Mellanox high speed switches

    We have a client who has a 100% Cisco managed network infrastructure. So the request is to enable QoS directly on Mellanox high speed switches on HCI in order to have proper management capability on our switches following Cisco/Client QoS rules. T...
    2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Aredent Health - Dell Customer - Optimize Masking View Creation by Resolving HostGroups During Restore

    During restore, CDM needs to map LUNs to the hosts. If there are three separate hosts, CDM will create a masking view for each, which means: 2 Storage Groups × 3 Hosts = 6 masking views. But If their hosts are under a parent HostGroup, CDM will re...
    8 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Please continue supporting the TS2900 in IBM Storage Archive v2.4.8 and later.

    Supported tape libraries - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-le/2.4.8?topic=planning-supported-tape-libraries IBM Storage Archive LE supports the following IBM® tape libraries: IBM Diamondback Tape Library (IBM LTO 9 an...
    9 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

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