IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Expediting file system recovery for very large environments

    Enterprise Scale environments are typically comprised of a large quantity of i-nodes and/or file counts for footprints of a few hundred PB in a single filesystem. When an unexpected event occurs, such as fs log corruption, running mmfsck to recove...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Add 'setcontactinfo' to DSCLI on DS8900 series

    Implement a command to set and update call home contact information on DS8900 series DSCLI. Update Name, Email, Phone, Address, etc. Similar to chsacfg command on HMCs
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Allow more authentication services for multitenancy

    Currently only one authentication services can be defined in Spectrum Virtualize systems. Although the storage allowes more authentication servers to be registered, but that for reliability (availability) reasons. (same domain) The goal is to achi...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Requests and limits for statefullset ibm-spectrum-scale-gui in Spectrum Scale container native shoud be configurable

    Currently CPU request for gui pods is set to 500m. This request is too large for small clusters and pod typically use ~10m. This can prevent other workload to be sheduled and it's wastefull especially in small multicluster scenarios.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Create new Satellite clusters in Fusion HCI from IBM Cloud console

    Enable creation of NEW IBM Cloud Satellite location in customers IBM Fusion HCI environment from the IBM Cloud Console. This could be enabled by having a agent on Fusion HCI the customer connect to IBM Cloud Satellite console. The agent is allowed...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    Create Fusion HCI virtual machines from the Cloud Satellite

    Today you must first access Fusion HCI to create host for IBM Cloud Satellite, then go to IBM Cloud and create location and files/scripts, then return to Fusion to load the files to attach them to IBM Cloud Satellite and finally return to IBM Clou...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    TS7700 and VEHSTATS tool - ORDERALL member

    Today, for each new version of VEHSTATS tool, the customer have to manually customize a new ORDERALL member which is time consuming (ORDERALL member is around 1200 lines today), fastidious, with a high risk of errors.The customer wish to have the ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    Create customer-viewable "Storage Fusion IBM Service/Support Reference Guide"

    The consensus of several IBM Storage Fusion HCI users and IBMers ( including Storage Fusion HCI HW Service Planning) is: A "Storage Fusion HCI / SW Support Reference Guide", similar to the external customer-facing IBM Elastic Storage Server Suppor...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Functionality already exists

    Test ISPP with Linux 8.5

    For ISPP server we have currently Linux version of 7.X and Linux team is planning to upgrade to RedHat Linux version 8.5 and they cant go for 8.4 as it has security vulnerability Please advice correct version of ISPP which is compatible with for L...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Support for AWS Outposts with FlashSystem Storage.

    Currently NetApp and Pure Storage seem to be the only vendors which do support this on-premises delivery model for Amazon. If we had support for this as part of the FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize portfolio, our Business Partners would have an IBM ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

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