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Volume and Host move between Partitions on Flashsystem

We need the possibility to move volumes/LUNs and Hosts between partitions on the same system. The current Partition Design is very static and gives limited flexibility. This feature can be relevant if you want to split your current volume/LUN/host...
2 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Include affected resources in alert Payload to ServiceNow

Upon initial configuration of the ServiceNow integration, it appears that affected resources are not included in the alert payload that is sent to ServiceNow. Current implementation only appears to have: { "severity", "subcategory", "name", "occur...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Display the "IOPs limit" parameter in Storage Insights.

The lsvdisk command gives the information # svcinfo lsvdisk -delim , -gui -bytes 12 Tue Apr 15 11:22:05 PDT 2025id,12name,xxxxxxxxxxxIO_group_id,0IO_group_name,io_grp0status,onlinemdisk_grp_id,0mdisk_grp_name,XXXXXXXPoolcapacity,75161927680....com...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environment.

Incorporating IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environments would significantly enhance functionality. This enhancement would enable clients curr...
4 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Free space on Flash Copy target devices after a Terminate command

A FC no-copy relation only copies data if the source has been changed (new data has been written). If the primary device has been fully updated all tracks have been copied to the target device and thoses devices are no more in a FC relationship. W...
4 days ago in IBM DS8000 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...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Support

LLDP is a technology used in cloud and automation scenarios which assists with Layer2 link discovery. Its works by broadcasting additional metadata and information about each network link to the network switches allowing for automation to more eas...
7 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

SPP: Get SQL backup amount via REST API / report

I would like to have possibility in SPP to get correct backup amount (frontend size) for each client. Just for clarification frontend amount should be base backup + all transfer sizes before deduplication and compression. Actual build-in reports a...
8 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Reduce the requirements for Microsoft Exchange

Some other backup solutions doesn't need the whole admin rights for Exchange. Example VEEAM: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/required_permissions.html?zoom_highlight=exchange&ver=120 Commvault: https://documentation.commvault....
9 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

To have new command backup nodedata that copies the primary data of selected nodes to copy stgpools, independent of underlying primary storage pools.

Like the move nodedata can move data for special nodes we would like to have that for a backup nodedata that copies the primary data of selected nodes to copy stgpools. We would not need to create extra primary stgpools for driving backup stg but ...
10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted