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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    3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

    Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

    change system layer from replication to storage when using automatic configuration for virtualization

    FS7600 comes with system layer value of replication. the automatic configuration for vitualization fails when system layer is set to replication and needs to be changed to storage layer. It would be helpful if the system automatically changed the ...
    18 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

    On-prem Storage Insights

    Last week, I met with a PSU BFSI client and presented IBM Storage Insights (SaaS). We requested them to integrate their storage systems with the Storage Insights SaaS offering. We conducted a detailed technical discussion and whiteboarding session...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 7 Submitted

    Request for Modification of Reserved VLAN 4091 provisioning, in Fusion HCI

    Currently VLAN 4091 is reserved and used by default by the product for internal communications, for provisioning and that’s ok. The problem starts when you have more than one Fusion HCI rack in the same cluster, so you have to extend 4091 to all i...
    3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Add Openstack KVM Support

    Add OpenStack KVM support similar to vCenter support. The most important need here is mapping storage volumes to their KVM Instance/host(VM). KVM creates unique volumes on the back-end storage for each volume but all volumes are mapped to the KVM ...
    13 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    IBM FlashSystem Discovery and Topology Adapter for OpenText UCMDB

      Develop an IBM-supported integration adapter for OpenText UCMDB that leverages the IBM Storage Virtualize REST API to automatically discover, inventory, and synchronize IBM FlashSystem assets within the CMDB. The adapter would collect stora...
    13 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Reduce host-visible path interruptions during NPIV failback operations

    IBM calling out that they observed failover and failback behavior is expected for NPIV environments, and host-side path transition messages during failback are normal. No underlying storage or multipathing issue has been identified. During failove...
    19 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Free-text field in dual control request

    It would be very helpful if an additional free-text field were available to the maker within the Dual Control request. This field could be used to provide explanations for the checker without requiring any additional communication channel, as well...
    19 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Support tiered S3 instant retrieval buckets as home filesystem with AFM to reduce AWS bill by 68%

    Today scale supports S3 standard and S3 Glacier as AFM home filesystems. However to optimize expense we need to support tiered S3 buckets for best value. With more customer relying on cloud and amazon S3, we want to provide better value for money ...
    25 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    More focus on stretched Scale for HA with Fusion HCI

    I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: A stretched OpenShift cluster (2AZ+Arbiter) over two sites (Fusion HCI/site) where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using fa...
    10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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