IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Sync and Async DR for External/Remote Scale (Global Data Platform)

    This feature request is to add sync(metro) and async(regional) DR support for Fusion software with remote scale (global data platform) storage.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Post activity tasks after Fusion backup completion

    Customers are integrating Fusion backup restore for OpenShift workloads with Data Protect. As part of the process they want to send backups to Data Protect S3 view which is supported. They want to leverage the immutable capabilities of Data Protec...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Fusion Backup - Support Entra ID or shared access signatures (SAS) for Azure Blob

    Currently, Fusion support Azure Blob as a storage location using the account name and key as described here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion-software/2.7.x?topic=locations-adding-backup-storage-location This approach is contrary to reco...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3

    Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

    The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Multiple namespaces managing policy assignments via labels

    Currently Fusion provides the ability to add namespaces manually via UI or CR. In a customer scenario where namespaces are dynamically created or deleted, they want the ability to manage the policy assignment of these namespaces via labels. Custom...
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Support for Windows Containers hosted by Openshift Virtualization VM running in Fusion HCI

    Windows containers today are supported by Windows Machine Config Operator on AWS, Azure, GCP, Nutanix and vSphere. Working with clients looking for Fusion HCI as the Openshift platform, this Idea requests Fusion HCI to support running Windows Cont...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Parallelised fusion IO updates on big clusters

    When doing upgrades on big clusters, IO stack update is taking a huge time, going out of maintenance window as machineconfig is changed one by one when doing the drain of scale nodes. UPdate process needs to be improved to reduce maintenance window
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4

    IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

    Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Treeview of copies

    Why don't you add a graphical view of the copies ? It is not easy manage the copies without having a global view of source disks and related copies. Something similar to the attached picture or by exploring a treeview
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Backup on AIX nodes managed by PowerHA

    The High Availability configuration of Power AIX systems is made up of two or more real nodes to which volumes and IP addresses are associated and then managed by PowerHA. In this configuration there are therefore at least three types of volumes:...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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