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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    Enable Service Node to reinstall OpenShift on Fusion HCI

    In order to reinstall OpenShift on a Fusion HCI, an IBM SSR need to come onsite to redeploy the installation images on the nodes and reset the swtiches.This factory reset is called MGEN. The idea:Fusion HCIs that contain a service node could use t...
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

    Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data Prote...
    6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    new command to q options which differ from their default value

    There are many options available for the SP server, documented as well as many undocumented server options. All have default values, some/many are adapted to specific environments. A new command would be helpful which displays all the options whic...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Under review

    Get SOBAR supported for Spectrum Archive Disaster Recovery

    We use SOBAR to backup metadata of all data that is going to Storage Archive. This is the only way to be able to recover data that was migrated toStorage Archive and recover this data when a disaster happens. In our use case we have an active arch...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Under review

    Support Flexgroup volumes in containerpools

    NDMP Backup of Netapp-Flexgroup should be supported to container pools. Flexvol is supported and working, but Flexgroup are denied because of different magic in the header (EA6C vs. EA6D).
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Allowing a host to be a member of multiple host_clusters

    Our strategic FlashSystem customers has requested an enhancement to improve flexibility in their environment. Today, a host can only be associated with a single host_cluster, which limits certain operational scenarios. The 1:1 restriction creates ...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    Spine switches for Fusion HCI HA setups with FDF

    IBM Fusion HCI offers different HA configurations for data replication with Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as storage provider. Because FDF cannot separate the storage traffic into a dedicated storage network, the HCI uplinks and the customer networ...
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Reduce the requirements for Microsoft Exchange

    Some other backup solutions doesn't need the whole admin rights for Exchange. Example VEEAM: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/required_permissions.html?zoom_highlight=exchange&ver=120 Commvault: https://documentation.commvault....
    10 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Provide a simple administrative command to show the the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours)

    While it is required to size the replication server pairs, the product does not provide a simple administrative command to show the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours). Currently, the only way to get ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Remote monitoring functionality for the IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance issues

    IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to remotely monitor its insataces to storage capacity shortages and address performance issues. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to monitor capacity and performance stati...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

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