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Full Deep Archive administration via GUI

Current GUI is tech-preview only (no task detail, no performance graphs, no user/bucket creation); everything is CLI-only today
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Planned for future release

Allow manual input of Storage Insights Tenant ID in system setup wizard (FS9600 9.1.2.1)

Current implementation of FS9600 system setup wizard (9.1.2.1) requires internet access for the browser, apparently only for retrieving the customer's Storage Insight Tenant ID to be used in the subsequent underlying "chcloudcallhome -sitenantid x...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Support multiple concurrent Policy-Based High Availability (PB-HA) 2-site-ha relationships on a single IBM Storage Virtualize system or IO Group.

### How should it work?1. Hub-and-Spoke PB-HA Topology: Allow a central storage system (System A) to simultaneously maintain independent active-active '2-site-ha' PB-HA relationships with different target systems (e.g., System B <-> System A...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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)...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Planned for future release

Add the ability for a single host to have volumes from partition and local volumes

Currently a single host definition have the limitation of having volumes from a partition or local, ww need to support a combination of those two, that will enable migration and various other scenarios especially in virtual environments. For examp...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter

Many clients at Middle East have only 2 sites as Prod and DR. They meet requirement of <10ms RTT latency between sites. They'd like to run HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter on Fusion HCI system. RH was not supporting running HCP control plane on base cluster ...
11 months ago in Storage Fusion Planned for future release

Add a screen to the HMC that shows disk encryption and what encryption algorithm is in use.

For Audit compliance we need a screen on the DS8K HMC that shows disk encryption is enabled and what algorithm is in use (i.e. AES-256).
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 Planned for future release

NVMe/TCP Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

NVMe/TCP is supported by OpenShift and IBM FlashSystem. However, the IBM Block CSI driver only supports iSCSI and FC. For IP attached FlashSystems customers want the IBM Block CSI driver to leverage NVMe/TCP protocol rather than iSCSI. Target envi...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Ability to exclude specific volumes from PBHA synchronization for hosts within the same cluster

In a VMware host pool, we have a Microsoft SQL Server Always On configuration that replicates data directly between our two sites. These hosts are also part of a cluster managed by PBHA, which independently replicates the data between the two IBM ...
22 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

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