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Query files content of a container

Be able do list the files stored in directory/cloud container.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Restore VM to the max. possible configuration in case of any issues detected instead to force restore only to minimal config

We have now experienced several situations where VM's were restored with only a minimal configuration because of problems (e.g. maximum number of available ports in port group was reached, unrecognized new parameters in VM config etc.). For furthe...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

List all available recipes in UI

Customer requested to be able to list all available recipes in Fusion UI and make assignments to applications in UI instead of doing from OCP Level.
11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Enhance the deactivate data command with optional filespace parameter

At this moment, the deactivate data command allows one to deactivate data on the node level only. If the filespace parameter is added to the command, one could use this command to deactivate all data for one (or more) filespaces only. Deactivatein...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Storage Scale - A GPFS node with multiple nic drivers (ip addresses) should not be able to rejoin the cluster when the daemon interface is down

Our storage nodes have multiple nic drivers and IP addresses (RoCE network). When the nic for daemon IP is down (dev bond0), it will still keep trying to rejoin the cluster again and again, because its another nic (dev bond1) is still working. But...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Fusion HCI Management Server

The Fusion HCI Rack should have a dedicated 1U Management server. This would be a low cost Linux server, single socket. The server would have the provision code as well as remote support tools. This could include remote access for IBM support, sim...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

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

S3 target on DS8

Consolidation of infrastructure (storage) on to a single platform
8 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Add 'setcontactinfo' to DSCLI on DS8900 series

Implement a command to set and update call home contact information on DS8900 series DSCLI. Update Name, Email, Phone, Address, etc. Similar to chsacfg command on HMCs
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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

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