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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

fixcentral communications - 8.7.0.10

Hi Support, Please could you Post in RED/BOLD informing customers to not install, previous downloaded images. With the recent release of v8.7.0.10 and withdrawal from download site. we have flashsystem 5200 and flashsystem 5300. I downloaded v8.7....
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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.
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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

MSP considering HPE VM Essentials as VMware replacement, but need FlashSystem/SVC support
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Customer would like product enhanced to record the username of the modified/deleted user.

The customer recently had an internal security audit for Virtualize 9.1. One of their findings was as follows: Description: If the solution has local accounts, are the below activities logged? a) Creation/modification of roles/profiles b) Modifica...
22 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Improve FlashSystem grid abilities for multiple systems Code Upgrade in one single interface.

Improve the capabilities of the Flashsystem Grid by allowing the code and drive firmware updates of all storage systems to be done through a single management interface, instead of having to open the management interfaces of each Storage that belo...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Improve Flashsystem grid abilities for daily operations (vdisk, host connections, lun masking, etc).

We have customers requesting that our Grid solution allow them to manage, administer and configure the functionalities and components of the Storages through a single management interface, without the need to open a specific management interface f...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

NVMe/TCP Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

NVMe/TCP is supported by OpenShift and IBM FlashSystem. However, the IBM Block CSI driver only supports iSCSI and FC. For IP attached FlashSystems customers want the IBM Block CSI driver to leverage NVMe/TCP protocol rather than iSCSI. Target envi...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Policy-based Quality of Service / Throttles

Every vdisk out of a specific ressource (pool/childpool/host/cluster/vdisk-name) should get automatically a throttle per pre-defined policy.
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Proxmox plugin for FlashSystem

Plugin to improve current interop limitations with Proxmox (clustered host access, maintain VM snapshot ability, thin provisioning)
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration