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SnapDiff-Support for ONTAP 9.18

Could you please add Snapdiff support for ONTAP version 9.17 and 9.18? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613
6 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Planned for future release

Query virt. Volume Inventory (Sizes)

Hello, The TS7700 Virtual Tape System tracks the space used by each logical volume containing data. However, the Web GUI currently does not provide a way to query this information in bulk (e.g., through the Search Logical Volume panel: TS77-I-108)...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

Integrate PB-HA volumes with Veeam Backup (qualification)

Many customers use Veeam Backup and want to purchase a disk system for this application, which can be found on the "Veeam Alliance Partner integrations and qualifications" page https://www.veeam.com/solutions/alliance-partner/integrations-qualific...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Planned for future release

DS8K - HMC must support at least 4096-bit RSA keys

Currently DS8K only issues 2048-bit RSA keys which is not sufficient anymore.
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Integration with Storage Insights

Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 13 Planned for future release

Enhance the "Storage system performance monitor status" error message by adding potential causes and recommendations

Today, an error (critical) is raised for "Storage system performance monitor status" without explanations or details. It is difficult for the users to understand the cause, the impact and the possible resolution related to this error. Many other e...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release
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Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Volume and Host move between partitions (split partition)

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...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

add a DMS portal for GEOs other than AWS-US.

The DMS portal of Defender is currently only available in AWS-US. For customers in Europe that have to deal with DORA, NIS2, GDPR and other topics find it hard or impossible to accept a critical application running outside of EU. Please roll-out a...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 3 Planned for future release