IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Make snapshotting independent from the GUI

    We had now several times that on some volumes the snapshotting stopped.Without an alert.Support mentioned us that this is due to gpfsgui failure, and indeed restarting gpfsgui resumes the snapshot shedules. Honestly, I think that is bad software d...
    14 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Signed kernel modules for Ubuntu 24.04

    Signed kernel modules, as delivered for RHEL, is necessary to run Ubuntu servers with Secure Boot enabled.
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

    AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

    IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for Hosted Control Plane (HCP)

    For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Integration of a detailed, consolidated and exportable reporting feature for Fusion B&R across hub and spokes

    I would like to suggest integrating detailed reporting into Fusion Backup & Restore, which can be exported as a CSV file, for example. In the Fusion UI and in OpenShift, some information about the applications on the hub cluster can be found u...
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Enable mmbackup to Work on Dependent Filesets

    Currently, mmbackup does not support running directly on dependent filesets. This limitation creates operational challenges in environments where independepdent fileset reach upto max limit (3000) . Customers cannot prevent dependent filesets grow...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Adding NVMe support for ESXi and Windows HyperV to Policy Based High Availability (PBHA)

    Clients want to exploit the host performance advantages of NVMe compared to traditional SCSI over Fibre Channel.
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Error message to provide specific detail of problem

    When Storage Archive is retrieving a file but the tapes where primary or any replica copies reside are offline the error message is non-descript and just says there is an error as opposed to error primary and replica files not available as tapes o...
    28 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

    Enhance mmchfileset like commands to move from dependent to independent or vice versa

    Clients would like to convert to different types of filesets.
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Request to add a feature that allows administrators to check the amount of data stored in each bucket or user/user group.

    When providing Deep Archive like a cloud service, it is necessary to check the usage amount for each user with administrator commands and charge according to capacity, as well as issue warnings for “excessive use.”
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

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