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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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IBM Storage Insights

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Provides a way to change the instance name, which is visible on the new Carbon-based UI.

An instance name is assigned when it is created and deployed. While it was not visible on the classic UI, it is clearly visible on the new Carbon-based UI which would surprises most customers; most customers would not remember they had chosen the ...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Is a defect

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights and Spectrum Control

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights, and Spectrum Control Also there are multiple KVM offerings available, which can be evaluated to add support in Storage Insights.
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

SI does not provide a way to investigate "Error" or "Warning" statuses in the "Health status" column for virtual machines.

IBM Storage Insights currently does not explain or provide a way to investigate "Error" or "Warning" statuses in the "Health status" column for virtual machines. As a result, administrators must manually check vCenter Server for details. Please en...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Ability to open a case via Storage Insights for Brocade switches.

Clients are currently unable to open a case to IBM support via Storage Insights for any added to their instance Brocade switch. A feature allowing this would be nice.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage

Customer would like the ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage in Storage Insights
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Reports need to include graphs

We simply need the ability to include the displayed graph that is visible on dashboards or performance reports when we choose the "Create Report" option. All of the reporting options are currently text based and can include an over time reports bu...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Staged severity level for software code level warnings

In the Advisor section you get hints when your code is below minimum level. It's even called a software warning. We propose to raise it as alert, when on an EOS code version, as wraning when you are below minimum level and as informational when yo...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

More functionality for ESS/SCALE

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation:And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots Ov...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

Allow more data points in SI Performace graphs & tables

Max 272 data points in SI for a selected performance metric (both on graph and in a table) is very often insufficient, and should be increased to 744 or more. This would allow Hourly data resolution display/table for a 1 month period (31*24). Or 5...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

storage insight- Volume by host details

it will very easy to full the volume details which host it connected
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Submitted