IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Future consideration

Extend IBM Storage Copy Data Management to support Safeguarded Snapshot at the Volume Group level, including groups configured with PBHA+DR, PBHA replication policies

Hello, IBM Storage Copy Data Management currently supports Safeguarded Snapshot only at the individual volume level. For environments where applications span multiple volumes, this limitation increases operational complexity and risk during recove...
6 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage

FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

TDP for MySQL/MariaDB is really needed.

As an IBM Business Partner employee I support a number of clients with ISP installations. Everyone are quite in disbelief when I tell that there is no native support for backup/restore of MySQL/MariaDB databases, which are somewhat popular, since ...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases Under review
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Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Planned for future release

Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Future consideration

Pool‑Based Virtual Capacity Management for SGC

Eliminate volume‑level virtual capacity limits for SGC and replace them with a shared, pool‑based virtual capacity model. Instead of assigning and managing virtual capacity on a per‑volume basis, all volumes would draw capacity dynamically from a ...
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Protocols - S3 Object Lock

We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Future consideration

Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

More detailed error messages for SP-VE GUI interface

When the VMware SSL cert is changed, SP-VE does not show any specific errors other than a generic network connection error. More detailed errors would be beneficial to SP customers.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

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