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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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More focus on stretched Scale for HA with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: A stretched OpenShift cluster (2AZ+Arbiter) over two sites (Fusion HCI/site) where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using fa...
6 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

More focus on stretched Scale for DR with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: Two separate OpenShift clusters (DR), one/site where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using failure groups.
6 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Integrate PB-HA volumes with Veeam Backup (qualification)

Many customers use Veeam Backup and want to purchase a disk system for this application, which can be found on the "Veeam Alliance Partner integrations and qualifications" page https://www.veeam.com/solutions/alliance-partner/integrations-qualific...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Submitted

Enable remote Clusters to connect at all local interfaces

For security or performance reasons the network is divided into different zones, either to isolate different tenants or to separate different types of network traffic. To enable multitenancy, a Storage Scale Cluster should be able to serve multipl...
2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Support for HPE VM Essentials with FlashSystem (including PBR/HA)

MSP considering HPE VM Essentials as VMware replacement, but need FlashSystem/SVC support
3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

export/import for host configurations

The existing feature to export and import a system's configuration does not include hosts. A feature to export all hosts (including their WWPNs) and import them on another system/cluster would be very helpful.
10 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter

Many clients at Middle East have only 2 sites as Prod and DR. They meet requirement of <10ms RTT latency between sites. They'd like to run HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter on Fusion HCI system. RH was not supporting running HCP control plane on base cluster ...
16 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

GUI - Copy Services (Mirroring View: Volumes grouped by Session)

On DS8880 and prior, the Storage Manager GUI provided a view on source system under Copy Services > Mirroring that grouped Volumes by GM Session. Starting on the DS8900 series the same view simply lists all Volumes (which is not overly helpful ...
3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Extend IBM Storage Copy Data Management to support Safeguarded Snapshot at the Volume Group level, including groups configured with PBHA+DR, PBHA replication policies

Hello, IBM Storage Copy Data Management currently supports Safeguarded Snapshot only at the individual volume level. For environments where applications span multiple volumes, this limitation increases operational complexity and risk during recove...
4 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

Global Search of Storage Protect Servers from DRS

Add as a capability in DRS for any connected Storage Protect server.