IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Enhancement to Fusion HCI GDP metro DR

    Fusion HCI Metro DR for VM requires admin to manually copy the VM yaml to DR HCI during failover. This is not automated and error prone. Customer who use HCI for VM, will run thousands of VMs. This is not practical to do it manually. Request to au...
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Functionality already exists

    Deep Archive support for S3 Partial Object Retrieval

    The current software version of IBM Storage Deep Archive (1.2.0) does not support S3 partial object retrieval functionality. This feature would be particularly useful in the media industry and would greatly increase the adoption of this technology...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Functionality already exists

    Ability to open a case for Storage Insights via Storage Insights

    Request to allow a user to open a support case for Storage Insights using Storage Insights. Storage Insights is able to open support cases for the IBM block storage systems but it does not have an option to open a support case for itself. As a res...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Functionality already exists

    Related to SafeGuarded Copy on the DS8000. SGC backup copies CANNOT be deleted. Today, a person with adminstrator rights can still log on and delete off valid SGC backup copies. Customers have been asking for this capability to be removed.

    This feature is required to ensure that SGC is totally immutable.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Functionality already exists

    Customer should be able to check the installed VTD_EXEC's via REST-API

    Provide a way to query the installed VTD_EXECs via REST-API GET request. Might just be added to the /GET/clusters/id request.
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

    Need a msg issued to z/OS when the SGC backup completes either successfully or unsuccessfully so we can trap it via automation.

    We run a SGC scheduled task every hour. We need to be able to get notified via z/OS automation when a SGC backup completes either successfully or unsuccessfully. More importantly we need to build automation informing us when a SGC backup has not b...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Functionality already exists

    Policy Based Replication - Need a way to monitor how far out of sync destination volumes are from the source volumes for different Volume Groups

    When adding IBM flashsystems to a monitoring tool (we have Zabbix), it can see the Volume Groups made on the flashsystems, but it is not able to get any information that shows how far out of sync the destination volumes are from the source volumes...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    MGR Dashboard LDAP/AD Integration

    Integrating AD/LDAP domains for user authentication to ceph mgr dashboard. This would benefit users in access restriction and user management with role-based access. For example, AD users would be able to authenticate using their own domain creden...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 1 Functionality already exists

    FlashSystem grid partition migration support with iSCSI host to the 9.1.0 tree

    FlashSystem grid partition migration support with iSCSI host was introduced in SV 9.1.1. but this code version is not LTS. the ask here is to add this functionality to an upcoming maintenance version in a LTS version like 9.1.0.3 or any 9.1.0.x
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    Migrate/Tier older data from containerpool to tape

    Hello, we use large file pools for our backups, these pools store a number of days of backups, then older/cold data get migrated to tape.Currently we have some severe pains with the file pools when migration is done to a collocated storagepool, se...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists

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