IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Spectrum Scale performance data collection with non root user in Spectrum Control

    When Spectrum Scale/ESS storage is added using non root user, performance data shows "Not Supported".Only root user can pull performance data in current design. There have been some requirement using "non root" user.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

    Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

    The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Safeguarded Copy function for latest FlashSystem 5000 products.

    With the introduction of Safeguarded Copy Function, it was decided that a FlashSystem 5100 or greater is required to support this new functionality. Since many Flashsystem were sold to Small and Medium businesses or institutions, we are wondering ...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Allow separation of Fusion Data Foundation service upgrades from general Fusion upgrade

    Allow used to disconnect / separate Fusion Data Foundation upgrades from the general Fusion operator upgrades. Data Foundation must be max N-1 rev from OpenShift, this limitation either prevents and sometimes causes OpenShift upgrades to fail in t...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Monitoring DS8K network adapters

    Using Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) the network adapters are now key for this function. Currently there is no function available to monitor the utilization of the adapters. The idea is to add an option within ‘monitoring’ à ‘performance’ where I...
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    CES support on SLES 12 SP3 Little Endian

    Recompile the CES packages to support SLES 12 SP3 on Power 8 and newer processors. There is already support in place for RHEL, but some customers are using SLES as their primary OS primarily due to SAP Hana installations and there is no support fo...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    LDAP information included in storage summary report

    In the current output for the DS8000 storage summary report, there are a lot of configuration items included with it. Noticeably absent is the inclusion of LDAP information including whether LDAP is enabled, which server is being used, and whether...
    5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    FlashSystem PB HA: stale partiton recovery while keeping vdisk UUID and mappings

    In PBHA environment, in case of disaster on site where client has preferred managed system and IP quorum, stale partition on remote site can be recovered with chpartition -accessstalecopy. Command will remove replication policy, but will also chan...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Native support for Spectrum protect Server HA on RHEL cluster

    Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd (TKML) has recently changed there Spectrum protect server from AIX to RHEL. Customer was using Power HA based high availability solution for Spectrum protect server previously and now is expecting the same capability on ...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Roadmap to integrate Storage Defender with Fusion

    As clients move from VMWare to OpenShift, the workloads are more data intensive and mission critical. Fusion backup and recovery is market leading for container workloads. OpenShift VM backup and recovery is supported with guest agents from IBM St...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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