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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    Per host PWWN data collection for IBM storage insights from IBM Storage Vritualise

    The customer has a cluster of 5 hosts which uses a collection of 10 LUNS to get the production environment. When we see storage insights, the data collected is from the volumes in the storage and populated on the console. There's no data collected...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    IBM SV data change rate integrated report

    IBM SV (SVC or FS family) need to have an intgrated way with GUI or Cli to collect data change rate in a specific time window and interval to enable SGC to be easier and correctly sized. It will helps to be more pervasive in SGC diffusion and more...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

    Check update recommendations against the configuration of the system before notifying the user

    Today the GUI for a FlashSystem/SVC will notify a user of a new code release of Storage Virtualize, but it does not take the specific configuration of the machine into consideration. Before you actually do an upgrade, the tool called CCU checker i...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Coordinated snapshot of a single volume

    use case: customer uses PBHA but has multiple db's in one volume group (due to limit on number of VG's); CLI would be sufficient (since it's integrated in a script)
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Management interface bond (port-channel)

    For environments that rely heavily on a working management interface (automation, flashcopy scripts) would benfit greatly with the ability to bond two of the ethernet ports for management. If common that the upstream switch can run a port-channel ...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Adding NVMe support for ESXi and Windows HyperV to Policy Based High Availability (PBHA)

    Clients want to exploit the host performance advantages of NVMe compared to traditional SCSI over Fibre Channel.
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI need to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen.

    V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy needs to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen. V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI now takes 16 keystrokes to view 7 consistency group freeze times. It takes 3 keystrokes to view one consistency group freeze...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Future consideration

    Use Redirect-on-Write for DRP Fully Allocated volumes

    For FlashCopy (FC) to use Redirect-on-Write (RoW) instead of Copy-on-Write (CoW) in a Data Reduction Pool (DRP), current implementation requires both the source and the target volumes to be compressed + deduplicated, as the dedup reference countin...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    DRP Pool -> improve vDisk copy delete function and progress

    Deleting a vDisk copy in the DRP pool can be a long process if the copy is compressed or deduplicated. Unfortunately, you can not figure out how long it will take. This would require a display in the GUI and a command on the command line. During t...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    IP Quorum message when deamon stoppes running or VM is down.

    After setup IP quorum in a Stretched cluster environment there is no warning\error or message when the VM is down or deamon stopped running. So a message or event is needed to take action to start the IP quorum again.
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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