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

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

    Extend node replication to allow it to also replicate decommissioned state of nodes

    In a replication environment (data and metadata is replicated from source to target server) it is currently not possible to "decomm node" for nodes that are replicated. One has to first disable replication for nodes before being able to decommissi...
    5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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...
    5 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    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...
    6 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Submitted

    Aredent Health - Dell Customer - Optimize Masking View Creation by Resolving HostGroups During Restore

    During restore, CDM needs to map LUNs to the hosts. If there are three separate hosts, CDM will create a masking view for each, which means: 2 Storage Groups × 3 Hosts = 6 masking views. But If their hosts are under a parent HostGroup, CDM will re...
    6 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Please continue supporting the TS2900 in IBM Storage Archive v2.4.8 and later.

    Supported tape libraries - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-le/2.4.8?topic=planning-supported-tape-libraries IBM Storage Archive LE supports the following IBM® tape libraries: IBM Diamondback Tape Library (IBM LTO 9 an...
    7 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 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.
    11 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    have Spectrum Control as an appliance (ova package)

    The uprade process to upgrade Spectrum Control to a newer version is too complex and fails all the time. Please consider deploying it as an appliance. An OVA package provides a pre-configured, optimized environment, reducing setup time from hours ...
    12 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    FlashSystem grid partition migration support with iSCSI host to the 9.1.0 tree

    FlashSystem grid partition migration support with iSCSI host was introduced in SV 9.1.1. but this code version is not LTS. the ask here is to add this functionality to an upcoming maintenance version in a LTS version like 9.1.0.3 or any 9.1.0.x
    13 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Bulk change volumes

    Before 9.1.0.1 you could hold shift to mark multiple hosts with one click and then change many parameters for all of them at the same time. For example, setting an IOPS or bandwidth limit, adding them to volume groups and so on. This feature is no...
    14 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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