IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Turn Thin Provisioning vdisks into read only instead of offline when they get full.

When a Thin Provisioning gets full, instead of taking the vdisk offline turn it into read-only, so it's still available for read operations and avoids customer impacting events.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Include the automatic Refresh States after an event "Hardware connection.... is now accessible (IWNH1038I)

After a hardware error in one of the device server of the Storage, CSM reported a communication errors and changed the replication sessions from Normal to Severe. However, for the Hardware Storage side, there was no replication impact, as the othe...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Is a defect

Auto expansion of inode to trigger once usage reaches around 95%

Today the Scale alerts and auto expansion are triggered when inode usage is very close to 100% and typically that means when the filesystem in use is very active and busy and is not optimal for performance. Would like to see the auto expansion of ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

Improve disk to tape data migration by allowing multiple threads to read data from disk in parallel

Spectrum Protect (SP) server data migration performance from disk to tape is limited by the data throughput reading data from disk. In this situation the SP server was reading data from disk (flash) with about 90MB/sec.The SP server internal instr...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Be able to set default throttle or multiple throttle schedules (business hours or weekends, for example)

This request is to have the ability of creating different throttle schedules, or setting a default throttle.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Introduce support for AD objects & containers

Introduce support for AD objects & containers
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

implement ability to remote mount a fileset instead of a full filesystem
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

Ability to open a case via Storage Insights for Brocade switches.

Clients are currently unable to open a case to IBM support via Storage Insights for any added to their instance Brocade switch. A feature allowing this would be nice.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

VADP Proxy selection should be more intelligent

During VMware backup VADP Proxies are selected by site and load, or you can assign a specific proxy (by name or site) to a VM that it should use for backup in the VM options.In larger environments we have defined multiple vcenters to a single gui,...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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