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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_...
14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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.
4 days ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

Implement filesystemPath in s3 API

We would like to see the flag (--filesystemPath) from the mms3 command on the protocol nodes implemented in the actual API. We have teams that utilize the s3 api that we would like to be able to have them specify the path themselves instead of hav...
about 2 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
14 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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.
8 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 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.
about 6 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Reporting Capacity Usage on volumes in hyperswap, 3-site, 2-site and volume group snapshots

We support many companies and need to be able to report the front-end usage and total capacity usage being used by them. We would like a report that captures volumes in hyperswap, 3-site, 2-site and volume group snapshots. It would be ideal if we ...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Flashsystem Storage systems to have basic monitoring capability in the GUI itself. Eg: alert or notify on volume capacity used or state based on set threshold on the system itself. Basically, the system itself to have basic/flexible monitoring capability

This is useful when we look at the system we can get all kind of alert/notification including volume used capacity. This will enhance visibility with respect to monitoring and alerting and will add an extra layer of protection from causing outage ...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

A command to reapply management class on a volume or list of volumes

Objective is to reduce migration time and correction time in case of error.
1 day ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

FlashSystem add button to export data from UI

Should be added button allowing the contents to be downloaded into a CSV file, starting from volumes from UI.
4 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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