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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.
3 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Support for Hyperswap - Linux on Z.

Hello Development and Product management teams. I would like to suggest an enhancement to the DS8000 related to the high availability solution, Hyperswap. We are seeing an increasing number of customers adopting Linux on Z, and one of these custom...
4 days ago in IBM DS8000 1 Submitted

Openshift ODF compatibility with Thin Provisioned disks

Thin Provisioned disks which are quick formatted using the dasdfmt utility with ODF / Ceph are currently not supported or recommended by IBM. TP disks have been supported since RHEL 8 on s390x / System z so why not with ODF / Ceph ?
about 5 hours ago in IBM DS8000 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.
10 days ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

SP DP for SQL on windows server 2025

Having customers already installing server 2025, and are in need of a working DP from SP.
about 13 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Submitted

Adding multipath support for FC backup

One of our customers has Cohesity cluster (12 nodes - Dell PowerEdge 760XL). Each server has 1 HBA (32Gb) with 2 ports and it`s connected to 2 Cisco switches (according to Cohesity recommendations). The problem is all my 12 nodes working through 1...
5 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.
13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Use larger containers for NonDedup data

We have about 100k of small 64M containers that stores Non Dedup data(one SP instance). Other types of data gets stored in containers up to 10G in size. NonDedup data should be stored in larger files of 1G or maybe even 10G. This would reduce file...
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

VSNAP uses NFS in v.3 in VM test restore. How can we force VSNAP to use NFS in v.4

It will improve security, performance improvements, improved stability and scalability. NFS is in v.4 due to this ensure VM restores and other operations are performed in the most efficient and secure manner possible.
6 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

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