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mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
about 23 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Under review

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...
about 23 hours ago in IBM DS8000 1 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...
2 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Make "Hold service state" persist across power cycles.

Currently, at a remote location, there is no way to make a FlashSystem stay offline across power cycles. There are cases where power maintenance activities take place, and it is expected that power may go up & down multiple times. Having a Fla...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
17 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Add Fusion Backup & Restore in OpenShift Dedicated (OSD) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Platform Support Matrix

IBM Fusion Software documentation normally adds separate entries/rows to the platform support matrix (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.9.x?topic=services-fusion-platform-support-matrix) for managed-OpenShift platforms. The current mat...
about 1 hour ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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.
about 1 hour ago in IBM Storage Insights 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.
7 days ago in IBM Storage CEPH 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...
about 12 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Support of CSI drivers for Rancher

There are various customers and prospective using rancher for their kubernetes containers, so it could be valueable to think and work on the support for those environments
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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