IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Storwize does not provide guidance for volume sizes

    Storage Products in the portfolio do NOT provide performance based advice/guidance on running environments. For Example: I want to create a 16PB volume; Spectrum Virtualize instead recommends a more sensible volume size range.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Poor Backend Device Configurations are propogated to the Storwize

    Poor Backend Device Configurations, for example: DS8K with 42 pools are not prevented or warned on during setup. This causes problems as configurations which propagate bad habits are just ignored
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Add WAIT=YES and Nodename masking options to GENERATE DEDUPSTATS

    I would like to request the addition of a WAIT=YES parameter and node name masking to the GENERATE DEDUPSTATS command. It is a long-running command and it would be nice to be able to script the QUERY DEDUPSTATS command to run immediately upon comp...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Prioritization of mmrestripefs -r block rebuilds

    When a FPO mmrestripefs -r kicks off it should prioritize rebuilding blocks that have 2 duplicates missing over blocks that only have one duplicate missing.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Add Timezone Attribute to Node for calculating Scheduled Client Events

    Client schedules are currently run based on the current time on the Spectrum Protect server. For cases where the clients are not in the same timezone as the server, this can lead to client schedules running at unexpected times. While adjustments c...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Most Expedient Full Datacenter Restore from Cloud

    The copy to cloud offload feature is used generally as a secondary backup after the initial backup on vSnap and a secondary backup to a vSnap at another site. During the backup process, the changed blocks from the last snapshot are uploaded to the...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Media read error to trigger auto rewrite

    When a media read error is reported by a device a read from another replica should be followed by a rewrite to the original device to allow the devices LBA to use a different part of the device.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Option to avoid down drives

    Option: when a device is down allows writes to blocks on the device to go to a different device rather than create a missed update. This protects the file system from large numbers of missed update blocks and retains full replica count.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Allow for separation of client services from storage services

    Allow for the optional separation of the gpfs mmfsd process into a client process mmfscd independent of the gpfs storage process mmfssd. When something goes wrong with I/O subsystem in one node the applications on that node should still be able to...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    SNMP Query support for Storwise V3700

    The V3700 SNMP Implementation only pushes management/monitoring information. We have a large OEM Opportunity that requires the ability to pull SNMP data for automated management purposes. SNMP exposes management data in the form of variables on th...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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