IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Storage Scale - Need GPFS to support storing or exporting performance data into enterprise-level time series database like InfluxDB or Prometheus

    Problem: 1. The "pmcollector" service usually cannot work well when the GPFS cluster has over 100 nodes. As a result, the GUI will not display the performance data normally. And restarting the GUI will not help.2. ZIMON can not process large amoun...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    DS8 Create Volume Sets Summary View Should Include Column to Show if Volumes are to be Mapped to a Host/Cluster or Not

    In the Create Volumes view in DS8 9.3 GUI, when we create a new Volume Set and Save it, the summary table of volume sets to create includes Volume Name, Pools, LSSs, Volume Addresses, Capacity, and Provisioning, but there is no indication in that ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

    DS8 2 Improvements to Create Volumes from Host Context Menu

    When a user chooses the Create Volumes option from the Host context menu, that it limit down the provided options to volume types that are actually compatible to the Host Type. Eg if the host is AS/400 then only include "Create Volumes for IBM i"....
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

    Bastion/DHCP/DNS server option for Fusion HCI

    I believe that the servers required for Fusion HCI installation should be offered as option of Fusion HCI. When building Fusion HCI environment, external server is requried for: - DNS/DHCP server - bastion server for application installation - mge...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Delivered

    Request to allow configuration commands to run during code/ifix upgrades.

    During the code upgrade process of flash systems, the configuration commands are not available from the time that the update process starts to the time that the new code level is committed. These restrictions stopping us to use self-service API to...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    We need the ability to convert a Thin Clone recovery into a Full Clone recovery.

    While a Thin Clone is desired for testing of a snapshot recovery, a successful validation requires a second recovery of the snapshot in order to obtain volumes not dependent on the source volumes. Without removing the dependencies, volumes with de...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    Keep the base hardware relationships on the storage system: by default

    When removing copy sets from the Safeguarded Copy session, the following options are available: Remove the hardware relationships (option by default) Keep the base hardware relationships on the storage system. A customer would like that the “keep”...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

    Provide RWX Block Storage for Kubevirt/Openshift Virtualization

    Kubevirt (https://kubevirt.io/) hugely benefits from the fact that you can do a live migration (like a vmotion) from VMs in a Kubernetes Cluster.Since VMs are just pods these pods cannot be migrated, but need to be created and deleted. To achieve ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 18 Delivered

    Increase the maximum number of consistency groups

    We need to support more than 32 consistency groups (idealy double). We have a customer that is using a DS8k in Open (non-Z environement) and this limitation have an impact to current installation but also to any feature DS8k installations . For ex...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered
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    Enhancement to DS8K's HMC power supply redundancy

    We request more power paths for HMC of DS8K. My customer had the incident that two IO enclosures (#3 and #4) fail in DS8886 and both HMCs were cut off from the power path, making the HMCs unusable. As a result, logging and remote support could not...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

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