IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Implement full LDAPS

We have a requirement from our clients to implement LDAPS on all instances (hardware and software), which use LDAP authentication.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support for nested LDAP groups

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Restripe options for balance and policy

Restriping a file or a filesystem can be done for balance or to change location policy or both. However the -b option even when it gets to a relatively balanced state continues to reassign locations and move data when wadfg uses random placement e...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Windows 10 Native Client

Need a Windows 10 native client committed for roadmap this year otherwise we will continue to loose opportunities.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

GPFS SMB - dfree command

We are deploying GPFS into production enviroment, but GPFS has problem with SMB service. SMB service (smbd) reports double size share than is real. This is caused by filesystem replication on two storwize V5010.The solution of this problem is to u...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Show Raidtype in V7000 GUI

would be very handy if we could see the Raid type in the V7000 GUI (to see quickly the underlying RAID level)
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase Number of change volumes

Increase number of supported change volumes with SVC low bandwidth mirroring from currently 256 supported volumes up to 4096 volumes.SVC stretched cluster in combination with SVC's nearly synchronous Global Mirror: Low Bandwidth mirroring to furth...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SuSE Kernel Updates caused GPFS incompatibility.

GM was forced to perform 2 GPFS upgrades across 3 large clusters due to SuSE security patches conflicting with GPFS. SuSE and IBM are requested to work together to keep this from happening going forward.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Lun expansion without deleting existing mirror relationship

Enable the posibility of lun expansion for luns that are in a mirror relationship.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Loss of access with nsddevices script

This is the follow up of case TS001236089 when customer copy the script "nsddevices" to the directory /var/mmfs/etc/ on ESS I/O nodes that prevent the code to discover disks for the recovery groups which result in loss access. This RFE is to addre...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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