IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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support of IBM COS Onprem Container mode with Object Lock in SP

Currently, only vault mode with Protectected Vault retention is supported. We need support for container mode to enable governance or compliance mode on SP immutable backups
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

CSI driver with RWX permission

we have a large VMware environment that uses an IBM FS7300 storage system as the primary storage for virtual machines. We have recently started using Kubernetes together with Persistent Volumes. However, the native CSI driver only supports RWO (Re...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review
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Enabling parallel I/O when migrating date from file-pool to tape-pool due to synchronous sequential write

With a traditional Storage Protect implementation with backup to file-pool the migragtion from file-pool to tape-pool is limited on disk latency to reach optimized a high throuhgput on tape. For an example with a disc latency of 2ms you can reach ...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Proxmox Integration with IBM Fusion

Target Customer Profile This solution is best positioned for smaller private market organizations that typically have: 25–500 virtual machines 1–10 IT infrastructure administrators Limited virtualization expertise Budget constraints Aging VMware e...
3 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Enable PIV/CAC Certificate-Based Authentication with LDAP for IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700

We request an enhancement to the IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700 systems to support certificate-based authentication using PIV/CAC cards in conjunction with LDAP. Currently, these systems only support password-based authentication with LDAP, which does no...
12 days ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Ablity to refresh a thinclone from an unrelated snapshot

The existing ability to refresh a thinclone volumegroup from a snapshot helps with automating repeated tasks and minimising admin in the server and OS infrastructure to discover volumes. In this operation the thinclone volumegroup is constraint - ...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Request for Enhancement – Detailed Backup Object Metadata in IBM Storage Protect Server

Description: Currently, the Backup‑Archive Client (dsmc query backup -detail or GUI) displays Last Modified Date, Last Accessed Date, Backup Date, and file attributes of the backup object. However, the IBM Storage Protect server (e.g., BACKUPS tab...
9 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Need CSI driver support for use of mirrored volumes in SVC standard stretched cluster

To create a volume with high availability (HA) (HyperSwap or stretched topology) on IBM Storage Virtualize® storage systems, put a colon (:) between the two pools within the pool value. For example: pool: demo-pool1:demo-pool2 Important The two po...
16 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

add the server certificates and key database to the prepare plan file

To recover a Storage Protect server 5 files need to be backed up via some customer process separate from the Storage Protect tools. Creating a reliable workflow to protect these crucial files can be prone to error and thus to a failure of the abil...
about 17 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Reduce or eliminate cluster-wide NFS grace period impact during Ganesha/CES node restart

In Storage Scale CES NFS environments, restarting a single Ganesha/CES node triggers an approximately 90-second NFS grace period that impacts client I/O across the NFS service. For high-availability environments, a single gateway node restart shou...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

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