IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Optimizations to the Spectrumscale ansible installer for larger clusters

    For large clusters we are finding that it is taking a rather long time to run. We are looking for optimization like skipping unneeded checks and/or more parallelization for better performance and minimize customer downtime upgrade windows. One are...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Allow longer volume names - use shorter mapping names - in storage protect snapshot

    Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controller production source vol...
    over 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Under review

    Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

    It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    allow tape device driver to support more than 1024 tape devices, specifically for ts7785

    Customers want the ability to have more than 2 paths to virtual tape devices. Since TS7785 supports 512 drives or more, having more than 2 paths means the total number of tape devices that show up exceeds the current limit of 1024. Since clustered...
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    SP server command to remove a directory from devclass file storage pools

    A Storage Protect (SP) server storage pool of device class FILE (FILE_OLD) may use multiple directories (filesystems) as defined by the device class FILE (FILE_OLD).Today there is no direct method available which allows to remove a directory from ...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Official Procedure for Resetting root User Password on IBM Defender Copy Data Management Server.

    As per IBM Defender Copy Data Management documentation, the procedure to reset root user password is unavailable. It gets quiet difficult if the root and Administrator passwords are lost, resulting in loosing the CLI functionality for IBM Defender...
    3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    allow network endpoint address to be edited on an external source (S3).

    Currently, once you have defined an external source you can edit several parameters, but the endpoint address (network address/ip) cannot be changed.
    7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

    The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Add information about the using ciphers for TS7700 and provide a possibility to exclude dedicate ciphers

    The security needs in companies are very different. Sometimes it is necessary to know what kind of chiphers the TS77xx used.Therefor it would be good to have a display for the possible and used ciphers.Add on it would be good to have a possibility...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Adding NVMe support for ESXi and Windows HyperV to Policy Based High Availability (PBHA)

    Clients want to exploit the host performance advantages of NVMe compared to traditional SCSI over Fibre Channel.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

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