IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    IBM Spectrum Control - Alerts - Ability to Schedule Non-triggering Time Windows

    Customers have backup windows during which a lot of alerts are triggered. Too many alerts causes customers to ignore all the alerts altogether even those that are triggerred during normal business hours. It would be great if we had the capability ...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

    Enable for storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time

    Hello IBM-team,can you please enable for SVC storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time ?The goal is: generate warning events at three different storage pool utilization levels, which can individuall...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    change tape read/write throughput rates

    Testing of Tapeoperations (move data) and got a throughput of only 120 MB/s to 140 MB/s with LTO7 tapedrives - in a Situation where nothing else happened
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Schedule a snapshot every 4 weeks via GUI (currently only available via CLI)

    A snapshot schedule created via GUI does not allow this schedule: mksnapshotpolicy -backupunit week -backupinterval 4 Using the GUI, only once a month can be set but customer needs every 4 weeks for his schedule. He primarily uses GUI, rather than...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Support Scale Client running on VMware ESXi 8.x

    According to the support page, VMware ESX 7.x is supoorted but not ESXi8.x . Table 72. VMware support matrix on VM guest https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#virtual also please provide GDS(GPUDirect Storage ) support informatio...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Increment the options of Send at the Report value. Increase intervals.

    Today, the Operation Center has two options to generate the report: Everyday or Weekly. The ideia, is to have more options, frequency and intervals to generate this report. In the understanding, the Operation Center, doesn't use the Spectrum Prote...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Need to protect Encryption Key Servers with Dual Control

    In case a hacker can login to TS4500 web GUI via admin user. He can do several stuffs like switch on Library-managed encryption (LME)? Data is encrypted and can no longer be processed if the hacker drops the key server. Please protect the Encrypti...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Tunable options to reduce failover time of ESS when one of the IO servers fails

    In 1H 2020, Korea team has made significant growth in ESS business. However it is noteworthy that business of our competitors have grown together. This is the evidence that market for fie storage is growing. Therefore it is strategically important...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

    Safeguarded Copy offload to Cloud via TCT

    We are looking to have the ability to offload Safeguarded Copies (LCP) to the cloud via TCT (preferably S3 cloud) and maintain the capability to create a recovery copy from any of the offloaded Safeguarded Copies. Today due to physical capacity li...
    over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Make "Hold service state" persist across power cycles.

    Currently, at a remote location, there is no way to make a FlashSystem stay offline across power cycles. There are cases where power maintenance activities take place, and it is expected that power may go up & down multiple times. Having a Fla...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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