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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    Reintroduce NVMe/FC Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

    The IBM Block Storage CSI driver previously supported NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) connectivity, however, this support was discontinued in newer versions of the driver. NVMe/FC is a critical protocol for clients running latency-sensitive work...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Under review

    Spine switches for Fusion HCI HA setups with FDF

    IBM Fusion HCI offers different HA configurations for data replication with Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as storage provider. Because FDF cannot separate the storage traffic into a dedicated storage network, the HCI uplinks and the customer networ...
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Reduce the requirements for Microsoft Exchange

    Some other backup solutions doesn't need the whole admin rights for Exchange. Example VEEAM: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/required_permissions.html?zoom_highlight=exchange&ver=120 Commvault: https://documentation.commvault....
    11 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Provide a simple administrative command to show the the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours)

    While it is required to size the replication server pairs, the product does not provide a simple administrative command to show the total size of backed-up data on a server instance on a given single day (24 hours). Currently, the only way to get ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Remote monitoring functionality for the IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance issues

    IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to remotely monitor its insataces to storage capacity shortages and address performance issues. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to monitor capacity and performance stati...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Running Fusion HCI Hub Cluster on Compact 3-node Cluster nodes

    Hosted Control Plane is efficient way of consuming Fusion HCI.Many clients are asking also to move traditional VMs to OCP to run on OCP.Also there are more GPU workloads.This makes us provision multiple bare metal HCP clusters.We need to dedicate ...
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

    Defender Data Protect - File/Folder-level recovery of AIX file-based backups from tape-based external targets IBM Storage Protect

    Current Limitation: Currently, file-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is either unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archive AIX objects using IBM Storage Protect. We request an enhancement of IBM Storage Defender ...
    9 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Add the possibility for SP4VE to be able to force the format of the VM drives, during restores, to EAGER ZEROED.

    (See case number TS016942043 for details) Even though VM disks are formatted as thick eager zeroed, SP4VE formats them as lazy zeroed during restores. This causes problems on the VCenter's end and additional work for the VM administrators.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    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...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Power off enhancement for node/system

    By moving the Power Off feature to service, we dont run into the "issue" with only local "power on" possible. Here we face different admins who can power off a node in troubleshooting not really thinking about that it can only be powered on using ...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

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