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Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
16 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
6 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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.
6 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Support DHCP with NSD for ESS/SSS clusters

This will allow enterprises that require DHCP for ip address resolution.
about 10 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
6 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

"Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" metric available for reports

Currently the metric "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" is available to chart under Volume Group->Capacity, but it's not possible to include this metric in a report. This is essential to understand what each VM etc consumes in snapshots, for exa...
12 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted
209 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
12 months ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Tagging Node and Data

We see more and more situations where specific nodes or filespaces need to have different functions such Retention Set, Replication to multiple servers or protect to tape and this is a big hazel to mange where we have try both with Node Groups, de...
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

volume formatting visibility

it would be great to display or at least inform the user that volumes are being formatted at creation or extension in the gui maybe allow to disable the format option in the gui
5 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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