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Storage

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The Current IBM CIS Benchmark Scan has a bug/flaw in few of the Controls

1) Ensure Cloud Object Storage encryption is enabled with BYOK Ensure Cloud Object Storage encryption is enabled with KYOK Ensure Block Storage is encrypted with BYOK Ensure Block Storage is encrypted with KYOK These 4 controls Due to a flaw in...
8 months ago in Storage 0 Delivered

Snapshot and Volume sharing between accounts

As a SaaS Provider, I would like to provide my customers with the ability to create snapshots and save the data into another (SaaS) account. For customers, it enables an easy migration between accounts (think M&A or multiple account strategy) ...
5 months ago in Block Storage 1 Delivered

Block storage volume snapshots for VPC Openshift PVCs

For Openshift VPC we mostly use Block Storage due to better performance.But is pretty needed to have a backup mechanism to safeguard our data in case of unexpected dissaster.
almost 3 years ago in Block Storage 2 Delivered

Ability for PowerVS LPAR (VM) to access storage from different affinity (not tier!)

For availbility it would be an advantage if a VM could access Storage from different affinity groups (controllers). This would allow the administrator to move data from one affinity group to another or to have a VM which mirrors data across storag...
over 3 years ago in Block Storage 0 Delivered

Archive and Expiration rules for Object Storage in Terraform

I'd like to be able to express cloud object storage buckets in terraform. Currently it's not possible to specify archive and expiration rules.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Delivered

Object storage versioning

Being able to version objects in object storage ala Amazon S3 would be very useful to help avoid accidental deletion or overwriting of files, either accidental or malicious (e.g. ransomware). Ideally there would be separate permissions for editing...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Delivered

More granular access permissions for cloud object storage

It would be helpful to be able to give someone permissions to upload/PUT new objects in object storage, but not modify/delete them. The Writer service access has 52 more granular permissions listed, but Writer allows objects and even buckets to be...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 1 Delivered

When creating portable storage need the device path to be noted along with the new strorage device

When one creates new storage for a VM would like to be able to navigate to the storage VM's storage list and see the OS path to the new storage. This helps in quickly setting up the new storage via fdisk and is also good for future reference if ev...
over 4 years ago in Block Storage 0 Delivered

Missing specific information in the logs related to Cloud Object Storage

On viewing the log details in Activity Tracker for cloud-object-storage, we see that the log captures the changes have been made to COS, but not exacly what changes have been made. Eg: We whitelist an IP address to the COS Firewall. We see that th...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 4 Delivered

Option to disallow bucket listing for public buckets

We want to be able to have public files in our buckets, but disallow listing the files by going to a folder.
over 4 years ago in Block Storage 0 Delivered