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...
    2 days 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

    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.
    about 19 hours ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    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...
    1 day 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...
    9 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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...
    1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 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...
    3 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....
    8 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Allow sources, policies, protection groups, etc. to be organized in a manner other than source type.

    Currently, as sources are defined, the way the information is displayed is by the type of source. So, all vSphere, SAN, SQL sources are displayed with the same type. This makes it difficult to find sources in a way meaningful to the operator. Idea...
    9 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Submitted

    NVMe/TCP Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

    NVMe/TCP is supported by OpenShift. Customers want to leverage this protocol to connect with IBM FlashSystem using the IBM Block CSI driver rather than iSCSI. Target environments: Fusion HCI with dedicated network card. BYO OpenShift cluster w...
    less than a minute ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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