IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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security issue with ssh key authentication

To allow dynamic volume creation during backup operations, you must enable remote access to the storage system with private and public Secure Shell (SSH) keys. But we do not allow access to a storage system without entering a password. Otherways i...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

Change to CIM support

On version 8.6.1 and newer, support for the CIM protocol is removed. Some third party applications that connect using the CIM protocol will need to be updated.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 7 Delivered

display FC Port RX/TX power metrics in CLI and/or GUI (instead of livedump only)

When troubleshooting bad behaving (storage-) ports or FC links in a SAN environment, the corresponding RX/TX power/attenuation metrics of each SFP at both ends of the FC link are a very good indicator to determine which of the typical 3 involved c...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Ability to expand existing mdisk by adding a single disk

Allow an existing mdisk to be expanded.An existing mdisk RAID 5/6 or DRAID would be able to be expanded by adding a single disk.An existing mdisk RAID 10 would be able to be expanded by adding a pair of disks.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

SpVirt encrypted syslog

send encrypted syslog files to a syslog central; our syslog feature currently doesn't include TLS encryption
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

start services after gpfs (filesystems) is ready using systemd

the current systemd units gpfs.service and <fs-mountpoint>.mount units can't be used to depend on (After/Required/.. systemd attributes) for other services. GPFS service is reporting itself as successfully started long before it actually com...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Delivered

IP quorum support double SAN switch failure.

The IP quorum on the Hyperswap solution creates a huge risks in the fact that you can't fail double SAN switches on a single site. Doing this will cause the complete solution to reboot and will cause downtime on both your sites. We would like IBM ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase the maximum number of consistency groups

We need to support more than 32 consistency groups (idealy double). We have a customer that is using a DS8k in Open (non-Z environement) and this limitation have an impact to current installation but also to any feature DS8k installations . For ex...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

essclient.properties file activity

SMF records show that this property file is being read circa 100M times per day, driving high I/O rates and CPU activity. It doesn't make sense that a static property file should need to be read this frequently.
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize needs a replication Wizard which advises on ALL parameters

Replication setup can be highly impactful if done incorrectly. Most mistakes revolve around either 1) Defaults such as buffer size, partnership bandwidth, and gm link tolerance. 2) Improper FCIP Switch Configuration
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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