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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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Enable Multi-Select Delete for Backup Jobs in IBM Storage Fusion

In the current version of IBM Storage Fusion, the list of executed backup jobs allows only single-entry interactions. When users need to delete multiple backup jobs, each DeleteBackupRequest must be created individually per job. This is time-consu...
2 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Join/SFMP support for RHEL 9/10

Please add Join/SFMP support to lin_tape driver to allow customers running 3rd party backup softwares utilizing it from RHEL8 to RHEL 9 (and eventually to RHEL 10).
7 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Under review

Enable bond1 (25GbE cards) with FDF (Lenovo nodes) to be used with VLANs and VMs

We noticed that currently the 25 GbE cards are mostly used for management/provisioning purposes. This fact got us thinking if we could use said network cards for a testing/development environment. The fundamental idea would be enabling a Linux net...
8 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

CES Auth - SSSD

curently on CES nodes we can use only build-in gpfs winbind daemon to communicate with Microsoft AD. unfortunatelly with windbind we can not login to servers with AD users. therefore we must use windbind and sssd simultanously - that is not suppor...
8 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Add auto resize of target volumes when Refreshing a volume group

Currently if a VG refresh has a target volume that has been expanded, you have to manually shrink it before refreshing it from the source again. If we've already decided to refresh the volume, we don't expect any data to remain, so having to alway...
10 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow suppressing host offline alerts at host creation time

At a recent code level, the FlashSystem began sending email alerts to our on-call any time a host was offline, which happens frequently due to patching or any kind of other maintenance. Based on feedback from an RFE, there was the option to suppre...
13 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

TS7700 (TSSC) - Dual Control for operational activities

Add Dual Control function to any operational activities on the TS7700 TSSC to increase resilience and protect from insider attacks as already implemented on the TS7700 HMC
13 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

Add ability for Fusion Backup and Restore to lock backups using the S3 Object Lock API on supported object storage targets

We have a client who is currently working to harden and integrate more immutability and airgapped data. Fusion users need protected, tamper-proof backups for compliance or ransomware defense , giving admins managing backup retention across object ...
14 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Automatic expand of a safeguarded copy child pool when it reaches the set threshold

If a child pool fills to maximum the copies contained in the pool would go offline. it would be useful if we could set auto expand to the pool that could grow in increments, therefore lowing the risk of loosing immutable copies. This would be usef...
14 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

HashiCorp Vault Key Management support for FlashSystem / TS7700

TS7700 using FlashSystem Storage supports KMIP for external Key Management. As Clients look to deploy HashiCorp Vault as their enterprise wide key management support is needed to incorporate IBM Storage Solutions.
15 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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