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Defender Data Protect support for OpenStack

Defender Data Protect currently lacks support for backup and restore of OpenStack environments that are commonly in use with many MSPs and large clients and Defender Data Protect needs to provide native backup/restore capabilities for this environ...
1 day ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Support NVIDIA Blackwell for Fusion HCI GPU node

We're now planning to build a platform business with major SIer vendors in Japan. We're planning to propose Fusion as their platform equipped with GPUs, but they requested us the latest model Blackwell is needed to expand their business into infor...
8 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Have CDM support use DB_UNIQUE_NAME identifier for discovery of Oracle data guarded databases instead of DB_NAME (or as an alternative option)

Any customer using Oracle Data Guard would find this useful. All databases within a dataguard configuration must have the same db_name value, it's an Oracle requirement. In order to distinguish one database from another within the configuration, t...
2 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Submitted

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...
6 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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...
27 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Under review

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...
9 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 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...
7 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 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....
13 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Integrate S3 commands into the REST API

We have an automatic workflow which provisiones storage with the help of the REST API (and not mm* commands)Since we want to automate the S3 part, we need s3 commands in the REST API. So the request is to provide S3 administration via REST API, id...
22 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Library command to exclude/include category codes from write protect mode

Currently, the only way to exclude or include a category code from write protect mode is to go to the cluster settings and use the GUI interface to alter each code one at a time. Using the GUI can take a significant amount of time due to page load...
17 minutes ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted