IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Support for SUSE K8s

    would be useful to have more than OpenShift in the field
    3 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    IBM Storage protect setup for safeguarded tape functionality

    We are finding a description of the setup and recommendations for Storage Protect in combination with Safeguarded Tape.
    7 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Enhance Scale ansible toolkit to deploy zimonGrafana Bridge

    Eliminate manual effort to add zimonGrafana Bridge
    7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    AlwaysOn Servermon should be able to automatically cleanup old datacollections in the instance_home/srvmon directory

    Multiple of our SP server instances experienced an issue which prevented AlwaysOn Servermon from starting up.The servermon log files show that servermon is crashing at startup.We found that servermon is crashing at startup because there are a lot ...
    8 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    3rd Party storage, support and validation

    We should validate and claim support for 3rd party remote storage such as that of DELL, Pure, NetApp. This was we can set our foot into the door of customers who have already and established relationship with their storage vendors. Technically wit...
    9 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    add option to only create gpfs.snap around a failed pdisk.

    currently when i create a snap with say --limit-large-files latest i get a 4GB snap from a single ESS3500 which takes way too long if i just want to report a failed disk to IBM support and they need a snap from the system to verify... please add a...
    14 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

    IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
    18 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Installation of DSCLI with all Java Versions

    Manual "DS8 Command-Line Users Guide":Java Platform (Java 8 or later) must be installed on your system. The installation program checks for this requirement during installation and does not install the DS CLI if you do not have Java Platform, Ente...
    18 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Incorporate Google and MS Authenticators to FlashSystem MFA

    Currently the supported MFAs are Duo and IBM Verify.I received a few requests from customers that do not work with Verify nor Duo, and requested to have the other options as well.
    22 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Reintroduce the option in the GUI – Modify Mirror Sync Rate

    A few days ago, I had a customer complaining about slow mirror synchronization performance.He even went as far as threatening to return two FlashSystem 7300 units because of the perceived sync speed issue.He was only convinced that there was no st...
    23 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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