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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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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...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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...
about 16 hours ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 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.

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...
about 15 hours 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...
6 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 7 Submitted

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...
10 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Improve Data Protect alert behaviors and information

Defender Data Protect alerts currently trigger when the conditions set are met. They do not trigger when conditions are close to being met, nor do they provide details on where they currently are before being triggered. This idea is intended to im...
1 day ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Files with only ctime changes treated as unchanged by Storage Protect, creating a mismatch in mmbackup’s summary. Adding the unchanged count into Storage Protect and mmbackup’s comparison prevent “skipped files” messages.

mmbackup builds its candidates files if there is just change in ctime. However, some files may have a modified ctime even when no metadata or data changes have actually occurred.For such files, if the IBM Storage Protect server already has the lat...

FlashSystem Test Encryption Key Servers from GUI / Fix Wizard

It would be useful if the FlashSystem allowed for testing encryption key servers from the GUI and the Fix wizard. On the DS8 we can test key servers from the GUI but on the FlashSystem even when going through the Fix wizard the only option is to l...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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....
9 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted