IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Policy Based Replication Allow rename of Volume group with replication policy assigned

    For our larger customers where we are (currently) replicating with GM/GMCV consistency group names are chosen alongside with the customer as they would like to easily identify by CG name to which application the volumes in the consistency group be...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    Lin_Tape support for RHEL 9.4

    RHEL 9.4 is the most current OS release for Redhat.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Delivered

    Ability to replicate storage fusion backup and restore service protection

    When we backup the service protection to an s3 compliant backup location, the service protection cannot be replicated to another s3 compliant backup location say at a DR site. It would be ideal if we can replication the service protection backup t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Delivered

    Support for RHEL9 for Storage Protect Server

    RHEL 8 is more than 5 years old. RHEL 9 was already released more than 2 years ago (was officially released on May 17, 2022), It would be a good idea to add it as Operating System for Storage Protect Server.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

    Show a User-Defined Instance name at the top of every CSM GUI page

    Many clients have multiple CSM instances in their environment for Active and Standby servers plus multiple instances of servers for different workloads or different storage systems. It can get confusing when an admin needs to manage systems runnin...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

    Leverage Storage Scale CNSA shallow copy volumes for Fusion Backup

    When using Fusion Backup & Restore to create external backup copies of Storage Scale based PVCs in Openshift (Scale CNSA or Fusion GDP), temporary volumes are created from snapshots and mounted to data movers. These volumes are full copies of ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Delivered

    Add GM Master Location to Global Mirror Info tab

    With newer CSM sessions including multiple GM legs simultaneously, it would be very helpful to show the Location of the GM master in the display. This would help identify and differentiate the GM masters and lead to less confusion.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

    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.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Delivered

    Allow CSI driver for Flashsystem to define PortSet

    The client is using FS9500 to automatically provision Block Storage to BareMetal Openshift servers through the IBM CSI Driver.As a shared infrastructure the client has deployed separated private network for each OCP cluster with Portsets.Today the...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

    When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

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