IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Support RHEL as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server

Now, it is only supported SLES 15.4 as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server. But, my client and many customers in the world are using RHEL(x86_64) as OS for IA-Linux environment. Providing additional SLES, not RHEL is an unacceptable requirement fo...
11 months ago in Storage Defender 2

Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Node lock

Currently node is locked on first incorrect password. Problem is if the user wants a new password and we reset the node password on the server and inform user of the password, the user need to start gui/cli to enter new password. But the first thi...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Ransomware detection functionality for IBM Storage Protect.

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to detect possible ransomware attack on backed-up and/or archived data. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to provide such functionality because IBM Storage Virtualize on I...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Fusion Data Foundation as a Service on ROSA

There are many OpenShift use cases on ROSA. If we can provide Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as a Service on ROSA, that will be useful solution for those cloud users. Such a cloud user usually don't want to install Software by themselves, they basic...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

Support NVIDIA H100 for Fusion HCI GPU node

NVIDIA GPU L40S support for GPU nodes alone is not enough to propose Fusion HCI in combination with Wotsonx.AI for generative AI environment. We need H100 support to win.
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 1

Need support for vSphere Exclude VM tags in Plus

Customer has a huge number of vCenters supported currently by SP4VE and has invested in SP4VE plugin and tagging including using vSphere tagging to exclude VMs. Plus will limit this customer from moving off SP4VE to Plus if they have to code all t...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enable a user to change the time zone within browser view of metrics

When I view performance metrics for a given Storage Virtualize (StorV) cluster SI renders time based on browser time zone setting. My investigation of performance issues would more efficient If I could change the time zone to match the time zone o...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Manual ticket creation by mmcallhome/GUI

mmcallhome is capable of creating HW tickets at IBM support portal on failing hardware automatically. Sometimes it would be helpful to create ticket manually. The credential/system information are directly available. Also any snaps and trace data ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Multiple Storage Protect Server DB backup on one tape

Currently SP only supports storing one internal DB backup per volume. If using tape (as recommended) e.g. LTO9 this results in using a 18 TB tape volume for storing only 100 GB database backup. Running 20 instance and doing 2 DB backup per day kee...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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