IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Support for Azure Blob Storage Cold tier in TSM Server

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage offers three online access tiers: Hot, Cool, and Cold.According to current documentation and support statements, the IBM TSM Server (Tivoli Storage Manager) currently supports only the Hot and Cool tiers. From a techni...
about 4 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Test Upgrade Utility should have section - pointer to wiki's (wiki disclosures) in-addition to errors/warnings

TS020690355 - Blue Diamond customer we were doing cluster code upgrade from 8.5.0.8 to 8.7.0.7 and noted at 2% node2 in service state. we ran rmnode & also try to abort the upgrade but were unsuccessful. Then , we had to raise it in specv-sme-...
about 22 hours ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Merge Partitions with different topology

Request on customer feedback is the ability to perform a merge between two partitions running not in the same topology (or using identical settings). The inability to perform a merge of partitions with different topology (HA vs non-HA), impacting ...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Error message to provide specific detail of problem

When Storage Archive is retrieving a file but the tapes where primary or any replica copies reside are offline the error message is non-descript and just says there is an error as opposed to error primary and replica files not available as tapes o...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Every Half year require to recommanded the LTS version reports

Currently, we have multiple FlashSystem storage models, including the FS5K, FS7K, and FS9K series. Recently, IBM has been frequently announcing new versions of the IBM Spectrum Virtualization firmware. While we plan to perform the firmware upgrade...
2 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Easy way open IBM case for IBM Brocade SAN switch via Insight manager

Currently, we have different models of Brocade SAN switches and FCIP routers purchased from IBM. The challenge is that when we need to open a case for hardware or software issues, it must be done through the IBM PMR portal. If this process could b...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Please notify the IBM storage End of Availability (EOA) and End of Support (EOS) service dates through the Storage Insight Manager.

Currently, we are managing multiple IBM storage systems of different models located at various sites. These devices were purchased from different business partners. Often, we are unaware of the exact EOA (End of Availability) and EOS (End of Suppo...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

mmvdisk - create vdiskset in system pool with DataOnly nsds.

We have ess3500 hybrid model, we want to define NVME disks as MetaDataOnly, and NL-SAS disks as DataOnly in the same storage pool - system. Today mmvdisk does not allow it, but we can do it in Scale: [root@ems4 var]# mmvdisk vs define --vs vs_ESS4...
3 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Allow Rescheduling of Snapshot Policy on Volume Group

Sometimes we need to change when a snapshot policy is scheduled for a given volume group. Currently you have to unassing the old policy, and reassign it giving a new time.
6 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Enhance the web MI to allow configuring the NTP server DNS, rather than a single native IP, inaccessible to the customer.

We are required to limit risk by using internal trusted NTP server DNS names which load balance to a number of NTP servers. The current 5.4.2 level doesn't allow the customer to view the NTP address let alone modify it. It is also limited to a sin...
7 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

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