IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    SpectrumScale should be able to natively mount at any point in the name space of a filesystem using GPFS client

    GPFS/SpectrumScale using the native GPFS client cannot mount at any location in a filesystem in a multi-tenanted environment in any way other than at the root level, exposing the entire filesystem to a client. GPFS should ideally offer the ability...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Host outages during SVC Codeupgrade: Missing Warning for misconfiguration and missing SVC check – command

    All backend-paths of each mdisk needs to have the same Host-LUN-ID (SCSI-ID). In case of different IDs on different paths of the same mdisk, SVC does accept this without a warning. But during a SVC Code-Upgrade, this leads to a offline-SVC-pool-si...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Storwize to allow CSV export of volume list from UI

    Some of the screens in the Storwize UI allow the contents to be downloaded into a CSV file. Not all screens do. This should be a consistent feature on all screens.
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

    Be able to run a pre upgrade validation script before a code upgrade

    Ability to run a pre-upgrade validation script as part of planning phase of a code upgrade
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Ability to set a warning message when the TS7700 premigration queue utilization reaches certain % of the licensed TB.

    There is no ability to set an alert to warn the end user that the premigration capacity utilization is at certain percentage of the licensed premigration TB. Having this ability will allow the end user to take a more pro-active action to prevent t...
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    SPP SSL Certificate upload needs significant improvement

    The process to upload an SSL certificate for Spectrum Protect Plus is unclear and misleading. The "manage your certificates" upload screen in the admin console states that the supported certificate format are cer and crt. These are also listed as ...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Idle session timeout for Spectrum Protec Plus Web UI

    It should be possible to automatically cancel inactive Web UI sessions according to your own settings. As it is now, inactive sessions are kept active forever. This is a security risk.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Implementation of allowedTopologies

    If you have a Openshift pod which wants to mount a GPFS filesystem, you need to manually, on each namespace specify a specific node selector policy to run your pod on a worker node with a deamon which has remote mount or it is a part of a internal...
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Report power redundancy failure on a ESS Data Server or ESS Protocol Node

    Currently, the GUI neither mmhealth report a power redundancy failure if power cord is unplugged or power is lost at one of the PSUs. The GUI uses ipmitool rvitals as an internal report were PSU appears as ok but PSU fan rpm are reduced. The GUI s...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

    GPFS 5.1.9.7 supports ubuntu22.04.1 (kernel: 5.15.0.136)

    Several customers are experiencing OS panics using Ubuntu (5.15.0-72-generic). The GPFS version is 5.1.9.7 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.15.y&id=a5ee9fe48fa51a79620b041b27a94a05e7ac75a0 root...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Functionality already exists

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