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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Ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R 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-...
14 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

Add support for AlmaLinux OS

Almalinux is being used by several customers who are migrating from CentOS/RHEL to this new flavor. IBM Defender data protect does not currently support this OS.
7 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Add a Utility node with FC cards

Add a Utility node with fc cards, so we can deliver a full IBM Storage solution with IBM Storage Archive, without having to involve Power brand.A utility node with enogh memory and fc card would fulfil this gap in our options when building a Scale...
about 7 hours ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
10 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Submitted

Proxmox VE - Backup with Storage Defender Data Protect

Allow Defender Data Protect to seamlessly integrate with Proxmox Virtual Environment without the need for an agent. This integration is requested by customers and included in RFPs to ensure the capability of performing VM-consistent backups and fa...
13 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Enhance physical Volume Pooling for virtual Volume Pools

as an additional Point for the Idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TS77-I-209 it would be useful if we can decide which virtual volume Pool (Application Data) is written to which physical Volume. So we can get a chain from the z/OS Applciation Data ...
about 6 hours ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

Set Up virtual volumes Pools for different z/OS applications

We want to define different volume pools and address them via Storage Class, so that we can specify from the z/OS side which application (via Storage Class ACS routine) writes to which virtual volume pool (logical volume range). In this way, we ca...
about 6 hours ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

OSSM data offload to tape via stgrule

We need air-gaped copy of all our data stored in directory pool containers. Almost half of the data is OSSM, however storagerule actiontype=copy does not offload OSSM data to cpoy pool.
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
20 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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