IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    SI Should Include FC Ports Current Speed as a Column

    SI should include the Current Speed for FC Ports in the table. The table currently only lists the maximum possible speed of a port. The CurrentSpeed of the port is available from lsioport -metrics
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    DS8XXXX Display Current Speed for Fibre Channel Ports As Well As Maximum Speed

    I would request that the DS8 CLI and GUI be improved so that the current operating speed of a Fibre Channel Port will be displayed in: 1) lsioport output2) On a new column on the the Settings > Network > Fibre Channel Ports page.3) When hove...
    about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Change the unit of retention for snapshot from days to hours

    I have a client that needs to do more frequent snapshots and retian them for hours instead of days.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Hardware snapshot for VMware backups

    We use SP for VE for backing up VMs and it works great for normal sized VMs.For VMs with big disks and high IO there is a performance penalty when there exists a vmware snapshot. The penalty is even bigger when removing the vmware snapshot and con...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Role Change For Spectrum Control

    Currently, there are only two roles in Spectrum Control: Administrator and Monitor. Administrator can do everything in Spectrum Control. Monitors can do nothing, not even create reports. We would like the monitor role to be expanded for that purpo...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

    Add Logical Volume MiB used to TS7700 search engine

    The TS7700 Virtual Tape system knows about the space used for each logical volume with data, but the search logical volume panel does not have an option to report on volume usage, and its critical.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Allow guest access to an SMB share

    With medical instruments and probably many other devices not always connected to an Active Directory domain due to aging operating systems on the instruments' consoles or instruments' vendors restrictions or limitations, it would be necessary for ...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Support

    LLDP is a technology used in cloud and automation scenarios which assists with Layer2 link discovery. Its works by broadcasting additional metadata and information about each network link to the network switches allowing for automation to more eas...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Multiple namespaces managing policy assignments via labels

    Currently Fusion provides the ability to add namespaces manually via UI or CR. In a customer scenario where namespaces are dynamically created or deleted, they want the ability to manage the policy assignment of these namespaces via labels. Custom...
    10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    eMail encryption for Operations Center

    As security requirements increase, it is our company policy to send encrypted emails with authentication. Can you please add SmartTLS with TLSv1.2 and authentication (port 587/tcp) as feature on Spectrum Protect Operations Center ?
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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