IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    Provide, expose and document an external REST API for IBM Storage Defender DRS

    The lack of a published REST API in DRS makes it very difficult to integrate DRS with external processes and reporting tools. A REST API should be made available to allow customers to integrate reporting and automation tools with DRS to perform ta...
    1 day ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    VM clones should be created and made available in seconds, not minutes

    For our ETH Zurich internal customers we need to be able to provide new VMs automatically, sometimes in large numbers, and we must be capable of creating and making such VM clones available within a few seconds. Moving VMs within a VM datastore cl...
    4 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    NVMe/TCP Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

    NVMe/TCP is supported by OpenShift and IBM FlashSystem. However, the IBM Block CSI driver only supports iSCSI and FC. For IP attached FlashSystems customers want the IBM Block CSI driver to leverage NVMe/TCP protocol rather than iSCSI. Target envi...
    1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    On-prem Storage Insights

    Last week, I met with a PSU BFSI client and presented IBM Storage Insights (SaaS). We requested them to integrate their storage systems with the Storage Insights SaaS offering. We conducted a detailed technical discussion and whiteboarding session...
    7 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 7 Submitted

    Support Cohesity Data Protect as a backup source in DRS

    DRS currently support Defender Data Protect as a backup source in DRS and it should also support Cohesity Data Protect to broaden the scope of the solution.
    2 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    Send error notification in case a physical ISL in a PBHA System Partnership fails

    Can the IBM issue an error notification by the FlashSystem, that is joining a PBHA relationship, in case a physical ISL fails, which is part of the related System Partnership ? It would be good to get a similar error notification as the Cluster Pa...
    11 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Support In-Transit Encryption at Filesystem Level for Remote FS

    Current versions of Scale only allows In-transit encryption (ciphers) at cluster level which restricts users from choosing which filesystem to enable in-transit encryption and which filesystem to use authonly mode. A new feature in the future rele...
    1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    fixcentral communications - 8.7.0.10

    Hi Support, Please could you Post in RED/BOLD informing customers to not install, previous downloaded images. With the recent release of v8.7.0.10 and withdrawal from download site. we have flashsystem 5200 and flashsystem 5300. I downloaded v8.7....
    10 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Improve handling of Snapshot (hidden FCMap in stopping state) cleanup

    Currently, there isn't much to indicate that a FlashSystem is having a hard time doing it's VolumeGroup Snapshot cleanup. If you look at the VG in the GUI, you'll see that the count of snapshots is greater than the number of snapshots that are act...
    14 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Track Thermal Throttling on Drives

    We recently had a performance issue, that IBM support was able to track back to thermal throttling on a drive based on data from a Snap-4. Would it be possible to track this information in events so that we could have an insight into how frequentl...
    14 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

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