IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Enhancement to Fusion HCI GDP metro DR

    Fusion HCI Metro DR for VM requires admin to manually copy the VM yaml to DR HCI during failover. This is not automated and error prone. Customer who use HCI for VM, will run thousands of VMs. This is not practical to do it manually. Request to au...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Functionality already exists

    Improvement of error logs and alerts to register warnings and evidence of error source

    Preventive node asserts/warmstart of Flashsystems occurs after the system detects a certain amount of errors. It would be interesting to see early warnings before the nodestart happens as well as clear indication of where these errors are coming f...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    Add Samba CES support for delete veto files

    This issue was reported by users of IBM Global Storage Architecture (GSA / GSA2). On a Windows system with a samba mapped drive when deleting a directory that contains a symlink that was created on a unix system; Windows is removing the linked fil...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA

    New version of DCDM 2.2.27 or another version - The ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA (via Sentinel) also on the non-production side.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

    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...
    10 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Integrate S3 commands into the REST API

    We have an automatic workflow which provisiones storage with the help of the REST API (and not mm* commands)Since we want to automate the S3 part, we need s3 commands in the REST API. So the request is to provide S3 administration via REST API, id...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    为了提高产品的RAS（Reliability, Availability, Serviceability）客户建议做必要的重试： OS bootup ➔ GPFS daemon starts ➔ Join local cluster ➔ Mount remote file system ➔ Join remote cluster ➔ Join remote cluster failed (due to unexpected exception) ➔ Mount remote file system failed ➔ Wait/sleep xxx seconds ➔ Attempt to re-mount remote file system (automated retry loop)

    为了提高产品的RAS（Reliability, Availability, Serviceability）客户建议做必要的重试： OS bootup ➔ GPFS daemon starts ➔ Join local cluster ➔ Mount remote file system ➔ Join remote cluster ➔ Join remote cluster failed (due to unexpected exception) ➔ Mount remote file sy...
    21 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Client updates stored locally on hub server

    There should be possibility to use local client updates for customers where security policy doesn't allow to use internet connection.
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Submitted

    mmdsh rest api command

    With the transition from ssh-based commanding to the Rest API, the functionality of mmdsh needs to be maintained. Currently, this command's functionality will no longer be supported once a cluster is migrated off of ssh-based communications. Many ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    In-transit encryption support for IBM FS9500

    In-transit encryption support for IBM FS9500. As per the Fidelity cybersecurity encryption standard, we need to enable the in-transit encryption end to end (host<-->storage). Please consider this enhancement on priority and make it available...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

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