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Support for Ubuntu 22.04

As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
6 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Object Lock for CES-S3

We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
8 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Threat Detection for Ceph

IBM FlashSystem has RTD based on FCM4, Defender uses Sensor (in file-system) to detect threats. We should have similar functions in Ceph to detect and report an early attack.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

Network option for Ceph Ready Nodes

Our customers have asked us to upgrade their network performance and availability for Ceph Ready Nodes. Therefore, we would like you to add networking options as well as disk drives. - Number of NIC ports. Currently, with only two ports(10GbE), cu...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Submitted

S3 Object Lock Governance Mode support required

Herman IT is a typical MSP which sells COS S3 capacity for their customers. Customers are demanding immutability for their data for X years. These customers may have a contract with MSP which expires in 1-3 years. If their customer wants to set an...
7 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Submitted

Assign an alias right at instance creation

When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Show the real used capacity on vdisk in GUI

GUI shows the two values “real capacity” and “used capacity” in addition to the capacity with which a disk was created.For a thin-provisioned vdisk this two values are useless, if the capacity is shrinking (unmap from esx). For example an actual e...
2 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

SIPro to trigger SGCs on FlashSystem when malware is detected

To have a fast SGC triggered when malware is detected, we should enable SIPro to trigger such without Defender DRS. Now this can be done with webhooks- that requires no out-of-the-box solution and a lot of customization.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted