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

    enhance onboard performance monitoring

    For many years customers have been asking to enhance the built-in performance monitoring capabilities in StorV's GUI. For a while now we're offering a 60 days history but only at an overall system/node level. However, many customers expect from an...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Ability to configure PBHA and PBR between the same two storages.

    Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

    FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage

    FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

    Develop the Transparent Cloud Tiering capability to send snapshots to cloud, but use a different Ethernet port than the managment port.

    Would like to send snapshots to the cloud vs. storing them locally long term. This funcationality exists, but requires the use of the management network to connect to the cloud. Would like to use another Ethernet port to send snapshots to the clou...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Direct Connection two Flashsystem without 'planned' error

    Hi IBM, Direct cabling of two FlashSystem devices over Ethernet for PbHA results in a degraded partnership and Error 880. And even if it is supported, it’s difficult to explain to a customer, and it can lead to overlooking actual partnership error...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    task-based TPI

    The way Two Person Integrity (TPI) is currently implemented collides with our security policies and is not considered a true "4 eyes principal". When SecAdmin1 approves a time slot of X minutes for SecAdmin2 to do anything with superuser powers th...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Allow dynamic addition and removal of WWPNs for hosts assigned to PBHA storage partitions

    IBM FlashSystem currently does not allow administrators to add or remove host ports/WWPNs when the host is assigned to a storage partition used with Policy-Based High Availability (PBHA). This limitation creates a significant operational risk in p...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

    Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Improve how to change volume population rate

    If the rate for a volume population should get changed (default 2 MB/s) it is required at first to display the "populating_mapping_id" using "lsvolumepopulation -showhidden". Then this "populating_mapping_id" must be used with the command "chfcmap...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    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.
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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