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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...
10 days ago in IBM DS8000 1 Submitted

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.
9 days 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.
16 days ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

increase total volume limit

the total limit today is Basic volumes per system: 15,864 we already hitting this limit with only 970 volumes. we have svc Stretched Mode and we are trying to do safeguard copy 7 generation snapshot and we are hitting the limit (1 snap every morni...
about 6 hours ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Request for Product Qualification: Fortanix

Customer is needing to integrate their DS8's into their new Fortanix external key manager. They are requesting IBM's support to officially support the EKM on DS8. DS8000 storage system - 88.59.53.0 DS8900 storage system - 89.41.25.0 DS8A00 model A...
2 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

NTP updates needed

Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
2 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Submitted

NTP updates needed

Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
2 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

PPRC with LUN's greater than 4TB

The customer in CMVC 372631 (BANK_OF_PIRAEUS) wants to migrate data from DS8900 (75KND00) to DS8A00 (78NWC50); involving volumes with a size of more than 4 TB. Current code has a boundary to allow for replication of a volume above a size of 4TB.
3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Defender Data Protect Agent needs to support customer-issued CA certificates

Especially for big customers with their own customer CA, we NEED to support their own certificates with Defender Data Protect agents to comply with their strict security requirements.
3 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Storage Insight Reports over all disks on all storage systems

Problem to solve the question: Do I have a storage system with a disk affected by a certain (faulty) firmware? SI is a central inventory system, which already collects the data of all storage systems and has this information already. It's a common...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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