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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 18, 2017

RFE 74: Storwize support for DNS names rather than IP addresses

There are a number of network services e.g NTP SNMP, SMTP and LDAP which have to be configured with IP addresses.
This is becoming an administrative overhead in large organisations where DNS is the source of the truth for all the other network services (NTP/LDAP and NTP)
and I would like to be able to define DNS names for all these network services and get the information from DNS
This request is already raised on developerworks as 54481

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jul 6, 2021

    Delivered in 8.4.1 (2Q 2021)

  • Guest
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    Nov 24, 2020

    DNS support for NTP and LDAP delivered in 8.4.0 (4Q 2020)

    DNS support for other IP addresses will be delivered later.

    Thank you for your support of Spectrum Virtualize. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

    philipclark@ibm.com

  • Guest
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    May 30, 2018

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - Other
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Storage TCC - Private Requests
    Component - Other
    Operating system - Other
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council

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