IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Defender Sensor: Add OS support for AIX/Power platform

    For the last couple of years and probably decades, we have told customers that their very business-critical applications should be running on Power/AIX platform. With our Defender strategy, we want to specifically tackle those business-critical ap...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    Default Lifecycle Policy

    Setting up a default lifecycle policy from the cluster management which would be in effect for every bucket by default unless the bucket owner puts a custom lifecycle policy on the bucket. This would in effect force the users to either set-up thei...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Planned for future release

    Enable bond1 (25GbE cards) with FDF (Lenovo nodes) to be used with VLANs and VMs

    We noticed that currently the 25 GbE cards are mostly used for management/provisioning purposes. This fact got us thinking if we could use said network cards for a testing/development environment. The fundamental idea would be enabling a Linux net...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

    Replication Job shows as "Error" if no data is there to process

    When using the replication of vSnap backup storage data and no "new" backup data is available in the source vSnap, SPP identifies the replication job as "Error" which is not true.In fact, just no new data is available in the source vSnap server. S...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    TS7700 - Aligned cryptographic support for TLS

    Regardless of the interface I'm using on TS7700 or TSSC, the TLS support must be the same on all interfaces like HTTPS and RYSLOG. All of them must be kept in synch and up to date (which is nowadays TLS1.3). Currently there is a mixture of possibl...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Ability to monitor performance utilization. If a Datastore is performing too much IO, Add a mechanism to drill down to specific VM causing the performance impact within that datastore.

    Once vCenter is registered using “Add vCenter” successfully, corresponding hosts and virtual machines are listed (and can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu option). If user choose a particular “Virtual Machine “ it gives details , esp...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Add support for standalone ESXi Hosts

    Add support for standalone ESXi hosts as well as vCenters
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    Easy way open IBM case for IBM Brocade SAN switch via Insight manager

    Currently, we have different models of Brocade SAN switches and FCIP routers purchased from IBM. The challenge is that when we need to open a case for hardware or software issues, it must be done through the IBM PMR portal. If this process could b...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Monitoring FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize with Prometheus and Grafana

    An increasing number of our clients is using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their infrastructure. For Spectrum Virtualize-based storage only the following exporter is available on GitHub: https://github.com/IBM/spectrum-virtualize-exporter Ther...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus supporting SAP HANA

    Spectrum Protect Plus supporting backup and recovery of SAP HANA.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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