IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Addition of reclaimable space on lsvdiskanalysis and/or GUI volume properties

With the avenue of reclaim_se utility to automatically reclaim capacity of thin vdisks part of standard pools, clients are starting to ask support at times regarding the reclaimable capacity on their volumes. The command lsvdiskanalysis, from clie...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Support Encryption key rotation in Fusion HCI GDP

The Fusion HCI GDP offers data encryption at rest through the integration with Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM). In accordance with customer's security policy, regular encryption key rotation is required.We suggest adding key rotation into Fu...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

Enhance RESTful API to be able to pull user group data

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. User group information: - Remote mappings and the roles they are assigned.
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Password expire message on GUI

Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

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 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Support for Windows Containers hosted by Openshift Virtualization VM running in Fusion HCI

Windows containers today are supported by Windows Machine Config Operator on AWS, Azure, GCP, Nutanix and vSphere. Working with clients looking for Fusion HCI as the Openshift platform, this Idea requests Fusion HCI to support running Windows Cont...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

Enhance Install-Toolkit to add Firewall configuration support for rhel9

Our current rhel9 Systems that are provisioned has firewalld system service actice bei default. This generate a requirement to define the nessacary firewall roules for scale.These are our current cmd's that we used: firewall-cmd --add-port=10080/t...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "traditional" license model

With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Need to improve the speed of deleting a large number of small files

when deleting a large number of small files, most of the deleted ones are reclaimed in the background asynchronous process of fullscandeletion, but the process of space reclamation is relatively slow
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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