IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Allow copy suspend of PBHA partitions

    In a PBHA environment the partnership between Flashsystems can be stopped suspending the copy and then when it is partnership is re-started the copy resumes (no need to a full resync). It should be possible to stop the copy at partition level to a...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Power off enhancement for node/system

    By moving the Power Off feature to service, we dont run into the "issue" with only local "power on" possible. Here we face different admins who can power off a node in troubleshooting not really thinking about that it can only be powered on using ...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    More Verbose Update screen for Firmware Updates

    During the Flash System Update the status jumps from 2% to 50% with no updates in between or afterwards, a more verbose visuals would be great.
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    MFA features require to add Google authentication

    Currently, IBM Spectrum Protect has Google authentication enabled, but IBM Flash Storage and SVC do not support Google authentication or MFA features. Including this functionality in upcoming versions would be highly beneficial, as it would allow ...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Snapshot and VG Snapshot Transparency to Expert Admins

    Currently the VG snapshots and vDisk snapshots are intransparent on the UI and cmd for expert administrators. Snapshot Disk are hidden and can only made visible with certain commands on the cmd but not on the UI. Which Snapshot rely on which other...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Continue CIM support

    Applications like ServiceNow rely on CIM to retrieve data during discovery. Without CIM support (since version 8.6.1 and newer), new integrations (e.g. REST based) are required but not available. IBM already has/had the knowledge to provide a good...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    FCM Drives on RDMA Enabled Expansion Enclosure

    While the FCM 4 NVMe drives has been a grand success & a milestone in the Storage Industry, we are noticing challenges with vertical scalability, among the customers, where they are unable to expand the FCM & NVMe Pool (using Expansions), ...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Iimprove the Event Notification alert emails sent from FlashSystems

    As reported: Our FS7200s are configured to send us email alerts whenever an event occurs on the system, including Warning level events, Informational level, as well as Error level. On a given day we may receive anywhere from 5 to 15 alerts of uniq...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Add a host to multiple host clusters

    It would be nice it I could add a host to multiple different host clusters. You can currently map a volume to multiple host clusters and it works. The reason for this request is to reduce the risk of human errors. Lets say that we have 3 different...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Allow Rescheduling of Snapshot Policy on Volume Group

    Sometimes we need to change when a snapshot policy is scheduled for a given volume group. Currently you have to unassing the old policy, and reassign it giving a new time.
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

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