IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Add an option to quorum groups

    We need to add the ability to select specific users for each rule to the quorum, not just the entire cluster. For example, we want to add a rule to restore VMs and Virtual Disks to a specific user group, not the entire cluster.
    about 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Deep Archive and Vaulting

    IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently include support for off-site or out-of-library tape vaulting . Although this functionality is not used on a daily basis, it could be very useful for customers who need to export ca...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Future consideration

    Deep Archive and QoS at bucket level

    IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support QoS. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring bandwidth throttling applied at bucket level, and would greatly increase the adoption of this technol...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Future consideration

    Replicate backups to S3 object-lock repository (e.g IBM COS, IBM Ceph)

    Many of our IBM clients have listened to our cyber resiliency messaging and looked to re-introduce a "3rd" copy of the data. In alignment with industry standardization for "321" backup methodology it is important to have an isolated and secure rep...
    over 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 4 Future consideration

    Compatibility matrix of Spectrum Virtualize - Automated process.

    Customers always have a hard time to check the compatibility matrix each time they need to upgrade version of Spectrum Virtualize. They need to do extensive manual workload to check the compatibility and they always complaining about it. Also cust...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

    RADIUS Authentication Support and Expanded MFA Options for IBM FlashSystem

    I'd like to propose adding support for authenticating FlashSystem arrays to an external RADIUS server. Increasingly, customers are requesting MFA implementations where the array authenticates via an open protocol like RADIUS to an external server,...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Needs more information

    Support incremental data transfer to cloud archive target (not require full retention set).

    Currently, the only way to send data to a cloud archive target (S3 Glacier, IBM Cloud archive or accelerated archive) is to create a retention pool and then send a retention set. When using the cloud archive target, the retention set is always a f...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Pool‑Based Virtual Capacity Management for SGC

    Eliminate volume‑level virtual capacity limits for SGC and replace them with a shared, pool‑based virtual capacity model. Instead of assigning and managing virtual capacity on a per‑volume basis, all volumes would draw capacity dynamically from a ...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    adjust installation scripts to work with DNF and the new path for the ln binary

    For a while now (since Red Hat 7?) DNF has been the preferred way to install and manage packages on Red Hat systems. The TSM client documents explicitly say RPM should be used. With Red Hat 10 the path to the file link command (ln) changed and DNF...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3

    Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 8.0

    According to the support page, VMware ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x, 7.0.x are supported but not ESXi 8.0.x IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platforms https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv For lon...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

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