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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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Resource Quota for Fusion Backup service

Currently, it is hard to estimate the amount of resources that Fusion backup service will consume. This makes it hard to size and license for the OCP infrastructure required. Will be good if we can allow user to set a resource quota for Fusion bac...
1 day ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Warrining Alerts Option to be made Available

We had recent case with one of private sector banking customer using DS8K for their most critical database. Due to one of the controller one disk reporting "disk operation errors" entire controller went offline impacting their business. In AIX we ...
1 day ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Enhanced Scheduled Task Interface

For users will multi-step Scheduled Tasks used for automation, it would be very helpful to provide an enhanced interface for viewing and managing those tasks. I would love the see an interface with the following capabilities: The base interface wo...
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Ability to Start a Scheduled Task at a certain Step

For users with Scheduled Tasks comprised of multiple actions, it would be very helpful to provide the capability to restart a task after a task failure. The restart would skip the actions that were successfully completed thus greatly simplifying e...
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Ability to View Scheduled Task

Currently it is not possible to view a CSM Scheduled Task. The only option to view the details and the Actions that a Task will execute is by issuing the Modify command and then cancelling before updating anything. This is less than ideal from a s...
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Display Standby Synchronization Progress

In larger environments, it can take some time for the Active server to synchronize the Standby and progress to the Synchronized state. Currently there is no way to know how much progress has been made or how soon the servers will become Synchroniz...
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

The different pokes for DS8K subsystems should be documented

In DS8K there exist different pokes - which is internal settings that change the default Microcode behavior. A poke is typically set by a DS8K SME based on a case. But as it could help solve problems for you, you need to know that the poke exists....
3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

show total host fibre port count

2048 is the hard limit for Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group. It would be useful if the system could show how many ports are defined and in use in the fibre channel connectivity panel. Thanks
3 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Host cluster view option

It would be useful to have an option that shows host clusters in the overview panel where hosts are shown. I have attached a drawing of what it could look like. Thanks
3 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

New Synchronize and Swap command related to Active and Standby Servers

Create a new command that would combine the steps to synchronize a Standby server and then automatically swap the Active and Standby servers once the initialize synchronize completes. For larger environments where server synchronization takes an e...
3 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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