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    SVC spare node functionality at Flash Grid level

    Currently, SVC spare node is assigned to a SVC cluster. With new Flash Grid approach and storage partition mobility, only single I/O groups are supported. Thus, a natural evolution of multiple I/O group SVC clusters would be multiple single I/O Gr...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    FCM Drives on RDMA Enabled Expansion Enclosure

    While the FCM 4 NVMe drives has been a grand success & a milestone in the Storage Industry, we are noticing challenges with vertical scalability, among the customers, where they are unable to expand the FCM & NVMe Pool (using Expansions), ...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Add performance statistics for IP Ports for iSCSI/Host workload

    Storage Insights has good performance reporting capabilities for individual fibre channel ports, but there currently is no capability to look at the performance of IP ports that are performing host workloads (iSCSI/RDMA/NVMe). With the wide adapti...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

    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...
    27 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Host visualization - based on SI/SC/Prometheus /Flash System in IBM Insights

    In IBM insights there in feature to view Host visualization - based on SI/SC/Prometheus /Flash System in IBM InsightsAdding them will be benefit for customer.
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

    Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

    Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include addi...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

    Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Enable Storage Protect server to write its database backups to two sites in parallel

    For redundancy reasons, customers operate and replicate Storage Protect servers and user data in/ between multiple sites.A Storage Protect server is able today, to write user data ingested into the Storage Protect server to two storage pools in pa...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    expand the number of hosts that a nodeclass can have

    Clients want to add more than 1k hosts to a nodeclass.
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Once a code upgrade begins, we should block Customers DS GUI logins with a "banner" stating code upgrade is in "progress".

    Clients, especially new ones who are not familiar with DS8000 tend to get upset when they are attempting to access the DS GUI during a microcode upgrade and find that they cannot. This will alleviate a great deal of frustration and uncertainly for...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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