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Satellite CoreOS images deployment

Make it possible via automation scripts in Fusion GUI to deploy also Core OS satellite Images, today only RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 is possible.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

Summary of how time is spent on a job in dsminstr.log - i.e. by percentage to easily determining the primary bottlenecks

Currently, all the information in the dsminstr.log is by thread, and it would be fantastic to know how to summarize this information on a job-level. This is very hard - if not impossible - to do in the current state, as all information is per thre...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

SI Should Include FC Ports Current Speed as a Column

SI should include the Current Speed for FC Ports in the table. The table currently only lists the maximum possible speed of a port. The CurrentSpeed of the port is available from lsioport -metrics
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

DS8XXXX Display Current Speed for Fibre Channel Ports As Well As Maximum Speed

I would request that the DS8 CLI and GUI be improved so that the current operating speed of a Fibre Channel Port will be displayed in: 1) lsioport output2) On a new column on the the Settings > Network > Fibre Channel Ports page.3) When hove...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

A flexible way to prestage LV into VTS cache

Today, there is no native zOS utility available that recalls(prestages) all the needed LogicalVolumes in an effective and automated way back into the VTS cache.
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

zHyperlink performance monitoring

Spectrum Control is a tool that customer use to manage their capacity, performance and other metrics of Storage environments. Although the Tool/Software have a lot of functions, I realized the zHyperlink performance monitoring aren't one of their ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

SSL CA certificates expiration date monitoring

We would like to have possibility of monitoring expiration date of SSL signed certificates by Customer CA through IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center and have ability to perform certificate renewal if possible. This would be a huge improvement ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

S3 to Tape

Provide a mechanism to flush out/tier older objects at bucket level from COS to tape ideally while preserving some kind of object level reference in the source bucket not having to rely on data movement at the application layer or leverage the COS...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 1 Submitted

Backups of k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS

We need to be able to protect k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS as that is going to drive our business.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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