IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    Request to support 105 disks per server in ECE topology

    The limits is 512 disks per DA.With split DA option,the limits also can't exceed 1024 disks per RG. The trends is cold data are stored in HDD based storage nodes that require ECE to support more disk per RG. Our major Partners are ready to propose...
    3 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter

    Many clients at Middle East have only 2 sites as Prod and DR. They meet requirement of <10ms RTT latency between sites. They'd like to run HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter on Fusion HCI system. RH was not supporting running HCP control plane on base cluster ...
    2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Restrict Critical Actions in AOS (Assist On-Site) Even for Root Users

    Summary: Implement safeguards in AOS to prevent root users from executing high-risk actions—specifically system shutdowns and core configuration changes—without additional authorization. To perform a shutdown, two independent authorizations must b...
    about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

    Fusion HCI VM HCP clusters with GDP remote mount

    The reason for this feature is that many customers utilize Scale/ESS for their data storage and want to have the ability to directly access this data through remote mounts from containers running on VM HCP (Hosted Control Plane) clusters within Fu...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Predictable handling of encrypted EXT4 directories on Linux

    For now the error when accessing an encrypted EXT4 directory by the backup client can be ignored by a setting in dsm.sys (see support case). But this leads to the effect, that an encrypted directory will be considered in a backup if the encryption...
    6 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Fusion HCI with SAN HBAs for Fusion Access

    Fusion Access enables customers to use their existing SAN Block-Storage on OpenShift with our gpfs filesystem, which has significant advantages over block based CSI drivers!Unfortunately, this is only supported on Fusion SDS, as Fusion HCI does no...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    export/import for host configurations

    The existing feature to export and import a system's configuration does not include hosts. A feature to export all hosts (including their WWPNs) and import them on another system/cluster would be very helpful.
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Object Lock: Limit retention to a maximum number of days and add an option to disable COMPLIANCE lock on a bucket

    Add configuration on bucket or container vault or both that limits the maximum number of days allowed when using object lock. Configuration can be made using service API or GUI as this is not something supported on s3api. Another option that might...
    9 days ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 1 Submitted

    Ability to set a legal notice on login page to GUI and TSSC

    Ability to set a legal notice on login to GUI and TSSC pages. A requirement is that we have a legal notice on the login pages to the GUI/TSSC to reinforce around the computer misuse act. This is a risk requirement of the organization backed by reg...
    17 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Query virt. Volume Inventory (Sizes)

    Hello, The TS7700 Virtual Tape System tracks the space used by each logical volume containing data. However, the Web GUI currently does not provide a way to query this information in bulk (e.g., through the Search Logical Volume panel: TS77-I-108)...
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

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