IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    Provide host attachment support for Proxmox VE using NVMe-oF/FC and NVMe/TCP in PBHA environment

    Proxmox VE is an emerging hypervisor in the DACH market. Currently, storage attachment for Proxmox VE hosts is only possible via FC/SCSI and iSCSI, whereas NVMe/TCP is already supported for VMware when using PBHA. NVMe-oF/FC and NVMe/TCP deliver s...
    5 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Submitted

    Storage Protect server should decommission a tape volume triggered by TS4500 cartridge status

    As of today, there is no connection between TS4500 cartridge health status and Storage Protect server tape volume status. The TS4500 is regularly checking the health of a cartridge, for example media health by running media verification, or, end o...
    about 6 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Storage Protect server decommission volume

    We are using Storage Protect Library Manager + Library Client environments. The Storage Protect servers have about 38000 tape cartridges in use.On a regular base, tape cartridges need to be scrapped, because they are end of life or show I/O errors...
    about 7 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    CREATE CERTIFICATE should allow to specify encryption key length

    The Storage Protect server creates certificates with 2048 bit encryption key length by default. Nowadays, this 2048 bit key length is too less and recommendation is to use encryption key length of 3000 bit or more. We request that the Storage Prot...
    about 7 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Client request to have NFS-Ganesha to bypass the 16 group limit

    For a Linux client GPFS mount over nfs-ganesha, there is a limit of 16 groups. Please see case TS022958377. The client is requesting support for users with more than 16 supplementary group memberships when accessing IBM Storage Scale filesystems t...
    about 22 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhanced Security and Usability for Trace Files

    We would like to propose the following two enhancements for trace files generated by IBM Storage Protect. 1. Option to Exclude File Names from Trace Files The names of files being backed up may contain information from which confidential or privac...
    13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Submitted

    Add support for VE and Proxmox.

    Since vmware is in a major phase out and Proxmox seems to be the growing platform also for production I would like to have STP implement support for this environment like rubrik/veeam and so on handles VMs or any wóther way we see STP handling Pro...
    3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    official hypervisor support Vates / XCP-NG

    Dear IBM Support, We are a Belgian CSP who uses IBM Flash System Storage & IBM SVC3. We have different models SVC and Flash Systems with host connection type fibre channel. Flash System FS5200 Flash System FS7300 Flash System FS7600 SVC-V3 SVC...
    12 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Submitted

    Client request to add support for host Linux Kernel Ubuntu 24.04 (or later) OS using the NVMe/TCP (IP) IO protocol on FSx600 systems

    For FSx600 systems configured with ALB7 100/40 GbE 2-port Adapter Cards for NVMe/TCP (IP) connectivity, ISSC offers RHEL, SUSe and Vsphere ESXi host support. Client is requesting support for Ubuntu 24.04 (or later) host Linux Kernel. Currently, th...
    7 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Provide more granular, task-specific user roles

    IBM Storage Virtualize provides predefined roles such as Monitor, Copy Operator, Administrator, and Security Administrator. User groups are assigned one of these roles. Administrators can also restrict access to interfaces and use ownership groups...
    about 4 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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