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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...
2 days 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...
9 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Configuration of NTP must be done using NTP-SHA2 algorithm using symmetric key

RBI has brought a notice to banks in India for below: Observation details & Manner of Compliance: Observation as per the report 3.9.15 - 'Stratum' Network Time Protocol (NTP) solution used by the bank for NTP synchronization configured with NT...
about 16 hours ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
about 14 hours ago in IBM DS8000 0 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...
7 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

gpfs.snap command and --sosreport option

If the gpfs.snap command contains the "--sosreport" option, you must be able to specify the node that collects the sosreport. But it doesn't seem to have that feature at the moment. (GPFS 5.2.2.0) When using the "--sosreport" option, could you pro...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Spectrum Scale CNSA - add more configuration options to cluster CRD

During our implementation phase of Spectrum Scale CNSA on OpenShift clusters we identify that current options in the cluster CRD are not sufficient for various use-cases. So it will be great to configure at least number of replicas and resources f...
3 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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...
3 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 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...
28 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...
10 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted