IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Reintroduce NVMe/FC Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

    The IBM Block Storage CSI driver previously supported NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) connectivity, however, this support was discontinued in newer versions of the driver. NVMe/FC is a critical protocol for clients running latency-sensitive work...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Planned for future release

    A potential improvements for tape access from z Cyber Vault. Related to TS7700, RMM and TCDB.

    This Idea is regarding z Cyber Vault and tape usage. An improvements for tape access from z Cyber Vault which is a hot topic in many installations these years. IBM have delivered a solution where we can use tape actively in a z Cyber Vault - safe ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Under review

    Allowing a host to be a member of multiple host_clusters

    Our strategic FlashSystem customers has requested an enhancement to improve flexibility in their environment. Today, a host can only be associated with a single host_cluster, which limits certain operational scenarios. The 1:1 restriction creates ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    Support S3 Glacier FR for Cloud-Container Pool

    Request Storage Protect Server to support S3 Glacier Flexible retrieval (FR) / IBM Storage Deep Archive for cloud container pool. Current support for Glacier FR for copy retention set require a stage to restore and is inefficient.
    22 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Improve DS8 Communications Certificate Renewal Process

    The current Communication Certificate renewal process is lengthy and cumbersome, and as the industry is moving over the next few years to require rotating certificates every 47 days vs just once a year, improving existing workflows as much as poss...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Provide new LI REQ knob to choose the old and the new Premig method

    At the code level lower than R5.0 PGA1, it uses old Premig method. Number of simultaneous Premigs becomes the maximum when total data size in Premig queue is larger than PMPRIOR. At R5.0PGA1 or higher code level, it uses new Premig method. Number ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Inhibit reclaim schedules should respect local time instead of UTC.

    Inhibit reclaim schedules are using UTC time. We have two times a year a time shift for summer time/normal time. After every time shift, the inhibit reclaim schedules are shifted one hour back or forward, because it always respects the UTC times. ...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Under review

    Assigning less CES IPs than CES Nodes to a cluster should not throw a warning

    Hi! If you have multiple CES Nodes in a cluster but only one (or less CES IPs than CES Nodes) every CES Node, which does not have a IP assigned will throw the warning "ces_network_ips_down". This is very misleading, because the IPs aren't down on ...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    have Spectrum Control as an appliance (ova package)

    The uprade process to upgrade Spectrum Control to a newer version is too complex and fails all the time. Please consider deploying it as an appliance. An OVA package provides a pre-configured, optimized environment, reducing setup time from hours ...
    10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    Allow suppressing host offline alerts at host creation time

    At a recent code level, the FlashSystem began sending email alerts to our on-call any time a host was offline, which happens frequently due to patching or any kind of other maintenance. Based on feedback from an RFE, there was the option to suppre...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

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