IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    CES Auth - SSSD

    All clients using Windows system connecting to Scale cluster export services with Kerberos through Samba. Allow user-defined nsswitch configuration for spectrum scale
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    LCU count mitigation

    As we look ahead to future releases of the DS8000 product line, we anticipate that continued increases in both physical capacity and I/O capability will eventually outpace the subsystem’s ability to scale volume addressing under the 255 LCU limita...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Process and automation to simplify the patching and software update of large node count clusters

    Managaing the the currency of Spectrum/Storage Scale systems are difficult when you have over 1000 nodes within the cluster in question. The request is for the process and automation for both the local repository and cluster endpoints where upon r...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    SCDM support on Other Hypervisors such as KVM, Hyper-V ... and also make it available as a standalone binary to de deployed on both PowerVM (Linux and/or AIX) and x86 Linux.

    With the recent VMware licensing changes a lot of customers has moved away from it and adopting other hypervisors. In Sentinel Bundle the SCDM component which plays the role of external orchestrator to the storage is only supported on VMware see h...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    SVC spare node functionality at Flash Grid level

    Currently, SVC spare node is assigned to a SVC cluster. With new Flash Grid approach and storage partition mobility, only single I/O groups are supported. Thus, a natural evolution of multiple I/O group SVC clusters would be multiple single I/O Gr...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Allow IBM Fusion Backup to continue if PVCs disappear during the backup process

    In a very volatile machine learning environment, PVCs are created and deleted frequently, controlled by the containerized application when users create or delete projects within the application. Let’s call these PVCs “User Project Volumes”. It hap...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Check update recommendations against the configuration of the system before notifying the user

    Today the GUI for a FlashSystem/SVC will notify a user of a new code release of Storage Virtualize, but it does not take the specific configuration of the machine into consideration. Before you actually do an upgrade, the tool called CCU checker i...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Integrate Spectrum Protect authentication with existing accounts in LDAP servers not AD (like Tivoli Directory Server)

    Today, with Spectrum Protect, if we are using LDAP servers like Tivoli Directory Server, SP will create 2 OU's: Administrators and Nodes and also create CN's of each Administrator ID under it. It will only authenticate users that are listed in the...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Allow "-noformat yes" option when creating volumes with CSI from OpenShift

    When creating volumes in OpenShift, the default behavior is to format it during creation. Although the volume can be accessed immediately and formatting takes place in the background, it can take a long time to complete, especially for large volum...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    SP Server certificate management

    Signed certificates gets shorter lifetime (down to 3 months), and intermediate ca (typically 2 years now) gets shorter and shorter lifetime. This adds lots of work for certificate management on SP servers. We can script most of it (create request,...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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