IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Sign kernel modules and enable secure boot on ESS

    ESS updates are delivered as a set of components already tested together, but are still building kernel modules locally during the upgrade. This wastes time (building modules takes a lot of time), and makes it impossible to enable secure boot. Sin...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

    QoS su Mellanox high speed switches

    We have a client who has a 100% Cisco managed network infrastructure. So the request is to enable QoS directly on Mellanox high speed switches on HCI in order to have proper management capability on our switches following Cisco/Client QoS rules. T...
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Add FIPS compliance to the tape library to enable Key Manager integration with the IBM Guardium product.

    Guardium uses FIPS by default. Without FIPS compliance the Diamondback library acts as a lowest common denominator for Guardium forcibly weakening the security stance of all products using the same Guardium instance e.g. Spectrum Scale. A minimum ...
    5 months ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Under review

    Running Fusion HCI Hub Cluster on Compact 3-node Cluster nodes

    Hosted Control Plane is efficient way of consuming Fusion HCI.Many clients are asking also to move traditional VMs to OCP to run on OCP.Also there are more GPU workloads.This makes us provision multiple bare metal HCP clusters.We need to dedicate ...
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

    Enable Password Expiry Visibility in Storage Defender

    Storage Defender currently lacks a feature to display or monitor password expiry dates for user accounts. This limitation affects all account types, including both individual user accounts and functional accounts used for automation and integratio...
    6 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    Improved method for applying the company self signed certificate as well as annually updating for governance purposes

    Customer has been trying to apply a company signed certificate but currently has to go through the process twice to properly apply the signed certificate. This process must also include the ability to easily update the certificate for governance p...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Allowing a host to be a member of multiple host_clusters

    Our strategic FlashSystem customers has requested an enhancement to improve flexibility in their environment. Today, a host can only be associated with a single host_cluster, which limits certain operational scenarios. The 1:1 restriction creates ...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    Allow choosing the snapshot name for a volume group

    Hello Development Team, One of our main FlashSystem platform customers in Brazil, the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), believes that, for a more customized experience, it would be important to allow choosing the snapshot name when a snapshot policy ...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    Please add error in event log when offsite reclaim (at copy export operation) is being stopped in case of a logical volume residing on an inaccessible physical primary volume

    We are doing copy export operation for safeguarded tape on a copy export only dedicated cluster. We had two times the problem, that a physical primary volume was inaccessible, which contained logical volumes that were needed for offsite reclaim op...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    AFM - Caching of local filesystem

    Allow AFM to cache data from a "home" of a local filesystem mounted on a node. This could be a local filesystem on a single node or a shared filesystem such as HDFS fuse mounted or other mounted POSIX filesystem such as a Lustre/ZFS/XFS/etc...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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