IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    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

    IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for Hosted Control Plane (HCP)

    For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Support Cohesity Data Protect as a backup source in DRS

    DRS currently support Defender Data Protect as a backup source in DRS and it should also support Cohesity Data Protect to broaden the scope of the solution.
    7 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Planned for future release

    Option to retain current tape assignments when removing/editing VOLSER ranges

    Currently, if you have a VOLSER range defined, if you delete it, it will remove all assignments from LLs for tapes within that range. It would be useful to have a simple checkbox/API flag that allows you to skip the unassigning of tapes when a VOL...
    3 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Allow LDAP when using SSH Port 22 access via IBM Suppport using AOS.

    Security requirements dictate that SSH access be setup to use LDAP with all access including IBM Support. We understand there are challenges setup to enhance security, but the challenge is not enough for this client.
    2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Increase fileset limit

    The current limits on number of filesets for a Storage Scale file system are: Maximum number of independent filesets per file system: 3000 Maximum number of AFM filesets per file system: 1500 Maximum number of filesets (dependent + independe...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    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.
    24 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Implement email notification to checker users for new or pending dual control requests

    Email still is the predominant communication method in enterprises, users are frequently checking their mailboxes. Today, a dual control request doesn't create a trigger to the "outside world" other than in the GUI or DSCLI environment. So a check...
    5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Add the option to delete a description previously created

    Add the option to delete a description that was previously created when selecting an alert to resolve, since some descriptions may no longer apply or simply need to be removed. It would be great to also have the ability to delete any description t...
    7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

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