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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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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...

IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Add auto resize of target volumes when Refreshing a volume group

Currently if a VG refresh has a target volume that has been expanded, you have to manually shrink it before refreshing it from the source again. If we've already decided to refresh the volume, we don't expect any data to remain, so having to alway...
9 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow suppressing host offline alerts at host creation time

At a recent code level, the FlashSystem began sending email alerts to our on-call any time a host was offline, which happens frequently due to patching or any kind of other maintenance. Based on feedback from an RFE, there was the option to suppre...
12 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Automatic expand of a safeguarded copy child pool when it reaches the set threshold

If a child pool fills to maximum the copies contained in the pool would go offline. it would be useful if we could set auto expand to the pool that could grow in increments, therefore lowing the risk of loosing immutable copies. This would be usef...
13 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

HashiCorp Vault Key Management support for FlashSystem / TS7700

TS7700 using FlashSystem Storage supports KMIP for external Key Management. As Clients look to deploy HashiCorp Vault as their enterprise wide key management support is needed to incorporate IBM Storage Solutions.
14 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Improvement of error logs and alerts to register warnings and evidence of error source

Preventive node asserts/warmstart of Flashsystems occurs after the system detects a certain amount of errors. It would be interesting to see early warnings before the nodestart happens as well as clear indication of where these errors are coming f...
14 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Ability to launch embedded command line shell from the GUI

Most of the configuration work i do is performed via command line, it would be really useful to have the ability to launch embedded command line session/s from the service options menu, this way putty etc would not be required in a separate window...
15 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Improve FlashSystem grid abilities for multiple systems Code Upgrade in one single interface.

Improve the capabilities of the Flashsystem Grid by allowing the code and drive firmware updates of all storage systems to be done through a single management interface, instead of having to open the management interfaces of each Storage that belo...
21 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Improve Flashsystem grid abilities for daily operations (vdisk, host connections, lun masking, etc).

We have customers requesting that our Grid solution allow them to manage, administer and configure the functionalities and components of the Storages through a single management interface, without the need to open a specific management interface f...
21 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Snapshot and VG Snapshot Transparency to Expert Admins

Currently the VG snapshots and vDisk snapshots are intransparent on the UI and cmd for expert administrators. Snapshot Disk are hidden and can only made visible with certain commands on the cmd but not on the UI. Which Snapshot rely on which other...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Adding NVMe support for ESXi and Windows HyperV to Policy Based High Availability (PBHA)

Clients want to exploit the host performance advantages of NVMe compared to traditional SCSI over Fibre Channel.
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review