IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Implementation of DIMM error checking at IBM Storage Scale Systems

    It would be helpful to implement an DIMM error checking, which is raising a warning, when a memory DIMM is throwing to much errors.In the current ESS versions, we don't have such an checking in place. Massive recoverable DIMM errors will not be re...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Add DarkMode to the GUI

    I suffer with eye strain and light sensitivity and it seems like supporting a dark mode is pretty straight forward.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Option to configure rsize parameter in Storage Copy Data Management for Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem

    Currently Storage Copy Data Management creates FlashCopy target volumes on Spectrum Virtualize/Flashsystem devices launching the following command: mkvdisk -mdiskgrp <pool_name> -iogrp <io_grp_name> -size <size> -rsize 0% -autoex...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

    Respect the TIER of the source volume when adding a volume copy to avoid performance impact

    When a client adds a volume copy to a vdisk, for example when converting a volume from Basic to HyperSwap (but other situations would also apply), the SVC SW does not respect the TIER of the source volume when allocating the extents of the volume ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Disable Host Degraded for Direct-Attached Hosts

    This client has multiple distribution centers with small FS5x00s that are directly attached to a few ESX servers. The site is too small to justify SAN switches, and direct-attach is supported with NPIV enabled on 8.6+ code. In our configuration, e...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Is a defect

    Add support for Rapid7 SIEM

    Storage Defender SIEM integration obviously provides many benefits.Rapid7's InsightIDR SIEM is used for our Production SIEM. Please add support for Defender to integrate with InsightIDR SIEM, or at least the capability to receive and log events se...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    command approval- Non approver can promote himself as "approver"

    The existing admin who was not configured as Approver can issue the command "update admin admin1 cmdapprover=yes" and promote himself as approver and approve for the his / others pending tasks. Its violating the purpose of having such feature.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    ALL volume view

    As a spectrum control user there's the option to view ALL volumes without drilling to individual storage systems, This would be a very useful addition so Storage insights
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Remove the requirement for disabling UAC on application aware VE backups

    As of now the use of the application aware Exchange backup with Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments requires the permanent disabling of Windows UAC. We would like to see a different solution (that does not require Windows UAC to be disabled ...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    AFM: honor dataStructureDump for temp directory

    Currently on error conditions AFM will dump to /tmp. In the cases where prefetch fails for large files, it has the potential to overrun /tmp and hang the system.
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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