IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Enable remote Clusters to connect at all local interfaces

    For security or performance reasons the network is divided into different zones, either to isolate different tenants or to separate different types of network traffic. To enable multitenancy, a Storage Scale Cluster should be able to serve multipl...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Automatic Reclaim for VMWare Volumes in Standard Pools

    • Thick at host• Thin at storage• Space reclamation is not working on Standalone Storage Affects multiple clients; results in manual re-thinning (which is significant work) needed for accurate billing. This works automatically for virtualized pool...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Provide backup policy selection criteria for OCPVirt VM workloads that is more granular than OCP project level.

    Goal: minimize potential for "backup storms" overwhelming CPU and network When a cluster admin installs and configures OpenShift virtualization they need to make design decisions up front about how to support grouping of VMs into specific Project/...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    Query for bitmap increment status

    During a configuration change from H3->H1->H2 to H1->H2->H3, running the start H1->H2->H3 command may result in an unexpected full copy from H2 to H3 instead of a quick resync (for example, when z/OS systems were down after rolli...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Submitted

    FlashCopy -- limit to specific volser ranges or categories

    Currently, FlashCopy for DR saves a copy of EVERY tape that has changed. This is excessive, using a lot of cache unnecessarily when DR exercises are being done for a host/client that only uses a small subset of those tapes. And when you have a hos...
    9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    DS8880 - Increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server to 512

    Sicoob is requesting IBM's support for to increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server and DS8880 to 512, once on VMware side this support is possible.
    over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Allow longer TLS Certificates in DS8000 HMC, 2048 Bit is too less

    The Strength of Certificates was increased for all types of Certificates,and the TLS-Connection to HMC of DS8000 have to be hardened. The German BSI gives the order for minimum certificate lengh of 3072 Bit, more is allowed.Less is not allowed. So...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Submitted

    Data Protection for VMware - vSphere 9 support

    As we need to update to vSphere 9, could you please support this release? Data Protection for VMware supports vSphere 8.0 only (beginning with 8.1.17). https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/requirements-documents-ibm-storage-protect-virtual-environments
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0

    Oracle DB support on Windows for Spectrum Protect Plus

    Spectrum Protect Plus ( actual version 10.1.0.3) is supporting backup of Oracle databases on Linux and AIX environments but not on Windows. It is not even on the road map. There is a big need to have this database vendor supported on Windows as it...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Lab validation required for Firmware/BMC/BIOS security controls compatibility with Fusion HCI

    Hello, We are currently working on a security compliance audit for our IBM Fusion HCI environment hosting NVIDIA H200 GPU nodes. Following our support case TS022037768, IBM Development confirmed that the following firmware/BMC/BIOS security contro...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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