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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Support NVIDIA H100 for Fusion HCI GPU node

NVIDIA GPU L40S support for GPU nodes alone is not enough to propose Fusion HCI in combination with Wotsonx.AI for generative AI environment. We need H100 support to win.
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

IBM CDM and IBM Sentinel with central management across multiple sites

Most european customers running a separation between primary and backup data centers. IBM CopyDataManagement + IBM Sentinel should be able to work and manage SnapShots across multiple sites. IDEA and REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT An application-consiste...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

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 ...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Allow Lun masking for the control path

With the TS4500 and other tape libraries, the Library Control path (SMC Device) is presented via Lun 1 over one or more drives, while access to the drive (RMT Device) itself is provided using Lun 0. In a larger tape environment, there is usually a...
4 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Data Protect as part of IBM Storage Defender and improvement for cluster-failover

Assume there are two Data Protect Clusters in metro-distance (<30km). Both clusters are loosely coupled only. Just backup data itself are mirrored asynchronously, but no meta-data. What are the issues with that? As a consequence, in case of a f...
26 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

Enable storage firmware or patches upgrade via Storage Insights

Storage Insights gives recommendations for firmware upgrades and security patch installs. For a huge storage customer base, the upgrading/installing would be time taking and error prone. Amadeus is one such customer who is looking for storage firm...
20 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

consolidated ticket overview

In environments with many devices it would be very handy to have a consolidated view showing the status for all tickets of all devices. A simple table view would do, showing for example the device name, number of open tickets, number of closed tic...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Expand Defender Data Protect capabilities to include agent support for Proxmox hypervisors

The concept involves utilizing Defender Data Protect to seamlessly integrate with Proxmox VE for VM-consistent backups, granular file recovery, and employing the same techniques as it does with VMware. This includes features such as instant mass r...
4 months ago in Storage Defender 2 Not under consideration

Scale S3/Nooba tiering to tape

With the new capability S£/Nooba replacing S3/Swift we would use the Scale ILM capability to move buckets/filesets from disk to tape thanks to Storage Archive integration
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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