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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    Increse Blocksize Spectrum Protect is writing to Tape

    Support bigger blocksize in Spectrum Protect Server than 256k or make it variable.For long distance Tape attachments latency become an issue which will dramatically decrease Tape Throughput.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    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

    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

    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

    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

    add large NSD on 100% filled up file systems

    We run into the situation that one of our file system was filled up to 100%. when we tried to add an additional disk of the same size as all other have, the "mmvdisk fs add" command failed with the error message: No space left on device The suppor...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    increase max nuber of storage partitons in a flash grid

    current limit is 32, we have very large sans and have hit the limit already on our flash grid.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Allow use of SSH Certificates for user CLI auth

    Short-lived SSH certificates allow enhanced security by allowing authentication with SSO/MFA, limited lifespan, and multi-user authentication. Many SSH servers natively support SSH certificates, including OpenSSH. It is a hope that this is an easy...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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