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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    SVC vSphere Plug-in supporting vdisk mirror

    The vSpehere Plug-in for VMware should be enhance so that the admin using the plug-in will be able t specify more detailed properties when creating a vdisk on SVC. Especially the definition of vdisk mirroring is important because we use SVC Split ...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Alert for AC Power missing on Fs9500

    Fs9500 is considered Enterprise Storage. When AC power is missing, IBM service notification is NOT opened. Other Enterprise Storage like A9K and Ds8K are reporting this event. Moreover, even if Fs9500 is equipped with 4 different PSU, since AC pow...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Not under consideration

    vdisk default caching IOgrp assignment

    Hi, While creating vdisk, Caching IOGRP assignment is automatic in a cluster containing more than 1 IOgrp. e.g. When vdisk is created on pool1 located on IOG1, its caching IOgrp by default should go to IOG1 maintaing local affinity in order to avo...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    MDISK removal advanced features

    It would be great to be able to tune rmmdisk performance, I mean, selecting all mdisks to remove from a pool and ensure a few things: 1.- Do no write extends on mdisks that have been also selected for removal, it has no sense to put workload in md...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    More intelligent Caching

    With the DS8000 IBM has several patents and very efficient caching algorithms. This interlectural property should be also available in the SVC
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    implement an "auto" setting for volume mirror sync rate

    currently the volume mirror sync rate can only be set to a fixed value. while it's great to have this real-time setting, it would be even more helpful to also have an "auto" setting for it to have the system decide at which rate it can sync/format...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Increase consistency group 512 volume maximum to at least 2048

    Current IBMi client has 498 volumes running on FS9500. Existing DS8K systems each have over 1,500 volume, preventing them from using more FlashSystems. Minimum # of volumes would need to be 2,048 but more would account for future growth.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Build a possibility to upgrade existing FCM4 arays created by <8.6.2 to the new functionality with ransomware detection

    Many customer will install on LTS versions for stability and fast coming PTFs. We will now deliver FCM4 modules with better ransomware detection possibilities. But it will not possible to use this with arrays formatted <8.6.2 , what is a CD ver...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Deliver Spectrum Connect as container image (Docker)

    Customers are very considered by the demand for root access to install Spectrum Connect. At some customers its impossible to get around this demand.One way around it would be to deliver a Dicker image of the product.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    EasyTier in multi tier pools - selsction of tiers participating in a single volume

    i would like to propose the ability to subselsct the tier level a specific volume is participating in. when having 3 storage tier within one pool, clients would like to priorize some volume e.g. have some volume use flash and enterprise, but other...
    almost 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

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