IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Add an option to quorum groups

    We need to add the ability to select specific users for each rule to the quorum, not just the entire cluster. For example, we want to add a rule to restore VMs and Virtual Disks to a specific user group, not the entire cluster.
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Spine switches for Fusion HCI HA setups with FDF

    IBM Fusion HCI offers different HA configurations for data replication with Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as storage provider. Because FDF cannot separate the storage traffic into a dedicated storage network, the HCI uplinks and the customer networ...
    3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    A potential improvements for tape access from z Cyber Vault. Related to TS7700, RMM and TCDB.

    This Idea is regarding z Cyber Vault and tape usage. An improvements for tape access from z Cyber Vault which is a hot topic in many installations these years. IBM have delivered a solution where we can use tape actively in a z Cyber Vault - safe ...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Under review

    Increase in the number of components analyzed simultaneously

    Hello Development team. I would like to suggest an improvement in the Spectrum Control. When some situation that needs a deeper analysis happens, like a performance problem, it is useful to see the behavior of the components. At this point, the Sp...
    4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environment.

    Incorporating IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environments would significantly enhance functionality. This enhancement would enable clients curr...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Bulk change volumes

    Before 9.1.0.1 you could hold shift to mark multiple hosts with one click and then change many parameters for all of them at the same time. For example, setting an IOPS or bandwidth limit, adding them to volume groups and so on. This feature is no...
    16 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    DR feature in Fusion Access for SAN

    Disaster Recovery (DR) feature in Fusion Access for SAN.
    3 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Provide governance details in Defender Data Resiliency Service for SaaS based application like Storage Protect for Public Cloud

    Doing so would enable clients to use Defender to use "Governance" for SaaS based applications and broaden support from the usual on-prem application/infrastructure.
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Submitted

    Ability to configure PBHA and PBR between the same two storages.

    Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

    Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

    In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Future consideration

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