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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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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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...
7 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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...
14 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...
5 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...
17 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...
17 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

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

Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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

Adopt naming of Replication Status for PBHA Volumes in Volume view to something more appropriate naming

Hello IBM team, can you adopt the naming of the Replication Status for PBHA Volumes in GUI's Volume view to a something more appropriate naming ? The current naming for the PBHA Volume's Replication Status is "Production". Can the naming be change...
8 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Feature Request: RADIUS Authentication Support and Expanded MFA Options for IBM FlashSystem

I'd like to propose adding support for authenticating FlashSystem arrays to an external RADIUS server. Increasingly, customers are requesting MFA implementations where the array authenticates via an open protocol like RADIUS to an external server,...
11 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted