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Read/Write-Test Button per MI for Cloud/S3 storage behind TS7700

The biggest challenge when setting up cloud storage behind a VTS is the network connection between the two devices. That is why testing and verifying proper functionality are essential for the person setting up the system on a VTS. On the one hand...
12 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

Enable/Add SSO or SAML to TS7700 Authentication Options

Currently TS7700s authenticate using local logins or LDAP. It lacks a modern Single Sign-On (SSO) or a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) option, specifically for Entra ID. As enterprises migrate from LDAP or require more modern authenticat...
11 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

Prometheus metrics for Fusion Backup and Restore Service operations

Fusion currently exposes a limited set of Prometheus metrics for backup and restore operations. While sufficient for basic monitoring, these metrics do not provide enough detail for production-grade observability. Problem Statement: The current Pr...
24 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Support OpenShift EUS (Extended Update Support) for IBM Fusion HCI

OpenShift EUS provides a stable, long-term support update channel with key advantages: Reduced update frequency (e.g., every 6 months instead of 3) Only one restart of non-control-plane nodes per update Shorter update duration Currently, IBM does ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

VM clones should be created and made available in seconds, not minutes

For our ETH Zurich internal customers we need to be able to provide new VMs automatically, sometimes in large numbers, and we must be capable of creating and making such VM clones available within a few seconds. Moving VMs within a VM datastore cl...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Send error notification in case a physical ISL in a PBHA System Partnership fails

Can the IBM issue an error notification by the FlashSystem, that is joining a PBHA relationship, in case a physical ISL fails, which is part of the related System Partnership ? It would be good to get a similar error notification as the Cluster Pa...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Track Thermal Throttling on Drives

We recently had a performance issue, that IBM support was able to track back to thermal throttling on a drive based on data from a Snap-4. Would it be possible to track this information in events so that we could have an insight into how frequentl...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Improve handling of Snapshot (hidden FCMap in stopping state) cleanup

Currently, there isn't much to indicate that a FlashSystem is having a hard time doing it's VolumeGroup Snapshot cleanup. If you look at the VG in the GUI, you'll see that the count of snapshots is greater than the number of snapshots that are act...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

More focus on stretched Scale for HA with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: A stretched OpenShift cluster (2AZ+Arbiter) over two sites (Fusion HCI/site) where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using fa...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

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