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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    3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

    Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
    about 15 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    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...
    8 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...
    12 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 7 Submitted

    Update Storage Protect server to avoid using the S3:ListAllMyBuckets AWS Java SDK call

    Current version of Storage Protect server uses V1 of AWS SDK for Java library, the libary invokes ListAllMyBuckets function (SP server validate cloud operation), ListAllMyBuckets violates the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) and rasing security...
    about 9 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    hardware inventory report in Storage Insights

    Kindly build mechanism to have one click hardware inventory report for assets configured for Storage Insights. No tool available in IBM portfolio to pull inventory of all assets configured.
    about 14 hours ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

    Password Length in TS7700

    I would like to propose an idea to increase the length of the password for the TS7700 user profiles to more than 25 characters as it would help us to keep the security to a maximum. Also, we would like to include the special characters in the pass...
    about 19 hours ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 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...
    15 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...
    6 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    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.
    7 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Planned for future release

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

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