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IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Support of 3 active replication relationship in DS8000

To maintain 2 synchronous relationship on 4-copy at 2-site will require support of 3 active relationship to achieve a symmetric model to provide extra resilience in both cases of storage system failure and site failure.
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

zstd compression & dictionary support

If zstd support is added to the product it would be very interesting to allow for a few dictionaries to be used to improve (de)compression speed and compression ratio. This is ideal in situations where ILM policies can be written to target either ...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Automate backup of cluster etcd

Using Fusion backup as a cluster level DR solution requires backing up the entire etcd data so the cluster can be rebuilt before using Fusion to redeploy the projects/namespaces. OCP 4.14 includes undated instructions on backing up and restoring a...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Policy Based Replication Recovery Volume Names

We appreciate the simplicity of Policy Based Replication setup; however, we are in need of these two features to be added: 1. Allow custom naming of the recovery volumes. This is needed because we do not use the same system names between each site...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus native application-aware snapshot/recovery support of Google Cloud Platform VMs

Support for SPP to snapshot/recover Google Cloud VMs via API (like VMware VM support). Need capability of installing both the SPP server and vSnap in GCP.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

ISP DP for SQL Powershell in AlwaysON Environment / restore Script

This Script (Command Line Interface) allows us to do faster restore compare to the Graphical User Interface. MMC GUI has long wait time when restore inactive backup's as described in the case (TS004928519). In a case of ransomware we can't accept ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

SPP support for Tanzu environments

backup/restore support for K8s running on Tanzu (PVC and etcd etc.) with SPP
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Introduce Data mobility - Ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another

Introduce Data mobility i.e. the ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another.This is so data can be easily managed and vSnap servers retired and added in an easier fashion
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Add monitoring of *_free_memory on io groups

Hello, it would be nice to have monitoring of *_free_memory on SVC/FlashSystem. remote_copy_free_memorymirroring_free_memoryflash_copy_free_memory This would help with monitoring of remaining memory left for bitmap copies. Setting up alert policy ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration