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 Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Automatically clear errors, and send alarm clear trap, for self healing errors

    The svc code sends snmp traps when an event or an error occurs. To make error handling easier, it would be nice to get the svc to clear selffixed issues. A trap that states that the error has been automatically resolved should be sendt to the trap...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    IBM Storwize/SVC QOS function to prioritize workload

    The Storwize / Spectrum Virtualize QOS function (I/O Governing) can limit the I/O's on a LUN. We need a functionality as I/O Priority Manager for different tenants (e.g Pepsi and Coca Cola) on one system.This priority Manager must be integrated in...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Expand DRAID and change geometry

    We should be able to grow or shrink an existing RAID by any rational number of disks. At each operation, there would have to be data movement and array rebuilds. Relocate the first chunk, then rebuild those stripes based on the new geometry (and r...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Provide encryption support to M2 internal disks to allow failed disks' removal at very large bank

    In case of a failed M2 disk in large bank or other information sensitive company, the lack of encryption support for internal disks prevents returning failed disks to IBM for repair because large banks command retaining all non encrypted disk in t...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Make IP Quorum App run as a service by default when it's installed.

    Today the IP Quorum App is not installed as a service in the Operating Systems, so when the host where it resides is rebooted the client has to manually start the IP Quorum app again. If this is made as a service automatically during the install t...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Disable selected Alerts and prevent daily messages.

    We want the ability to disable 'recommended' Warning / Alerts from sending daily emails from selected events.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Capability to throttle vdisk by defining a goal response time (possibility to delay an I/O to a value)

    There are an increasing number of clients asking for the functionality of specifying the goal response time of a volume (vdisk), so that it doesn't go faster than this goal and does not use resources that could be used by other volumes.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Independent Certificates for Key Servers

    Need to separate the client and server certificates for SafeNets Gemalto Key Servers. Currently, they are on the same certificate.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Send an SNMP trap when an open problem is fixed, for SNMP server to clean/drop the alert.

    Send SNMP traps when open problems are fixed so clients can automate the cleanup of open issues on their monitoring tools.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Turn Thin Provisioning vdisks into read only instead of offline when they get full.

    When a Thin Provisioning gets full, instead of taking the vdisk offline turn it into read-only, so it's still available for read operations and avoids customer impacting events.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

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