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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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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...
3 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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

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.
3 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 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...
3 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 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
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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...
19 minutes ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Volume hot expansion support for PBHA solution

The client has two FS5200 and implemented PBHA, but is questioning that it is not possible to perform hot volume expansion, he requested documentation showing that it is on the roadmap. I was searching and found a confidential document that indica...
about 13 hours ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Able to temporary disable a SMB or NFS export on protocol nodes.

There is no way to temporary disable and SMB or NFS exports. The only way is to delete the export. (At least for SMB exports) It would be more convenient and less likely that you make an error if you could disable it instead of delete it. It would...
about 21 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

DS8900 SYSLOG does not log severity

Even though events can be sent to syslog, it is useless because it does not include the severity (information, warning, error), which makes it very hard/impossible to automate.
2 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

"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...
9 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted