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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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Storage Fusion

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Network Virtualization Fusion

In telecommunications industry we cannot use standard virtualization with Fusion HCI. This will open us a new market segment
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Not under consideration

AFM Replication to Cloud on HCI Systems based on scale

support hybrid deployments for HCI systems based on Scale ECE
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

Support of custom tolerations for Fusion base, backup services and non-core services

Reduce VPC requirements on worker nodes, reducing cost of CPK and OCP licenses allowing base & backup services to run on infra-nodes
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

IBM Cloud Pak Adopt Online Backup/Restore with Storage Fusion & Recipe

Online and non-disruptive backup and restore of mission-critical and enterprise applications such as Cloud Pak for Data is now available (with CP4D v4.5 and onward) using application-aware recipes and IBM Storage Fusion software. Other Cloud Paks ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Planned for future release

Support Storage Scale Stretch cluster with metroDR of FusionSDS

IBM always push SDS approach. Giving customers the chance to use Storage Scale SW version as Active/ative storage ( stretch cluster) on fusion SDS will open us lots of opportunities
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 4 Future consideration

Create customer-viewable "Storage Fusion IBM Service/Support Reference Guide"

The consensus of several IBM Storage Fusion HCI users and IBMers ( including Storage Fusion HCI HW Service Planning) is: A "Storage Fusion HCI / SW Support Reference Guide", similar to the external customer-facing IBM Elastic Storage Server Suppor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Functionality already exists

Allow ISF SW version licensing based on TB instead of VPCs for small setups

We are facing problems on the pricing of ISF based on VPCs for small setups as they only need a range of 10-20TB . When doing the VPC pricing is really hard to sell the product at this stage as customer are not needing a high capacity
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Externally connect to Management switch to remote support HCI

A customer asks to have the chance to externally connect to the internal switches of Spectum Fusion HCI to remote support the appliance in case Red Hat OCP doesn’t work because two master nodes failed or an administrator blocked the Red Hat OCP ma...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

Support for IBM Storage Discover for local filesystem in IBM Spectrum Fusion / Fusion HCI deployments

IBM Storage Discover is supposed to be an integrated component of the Spectrum Fusion platform. however Spectrum Fusion HCI does not allow for Storage Discover to scan the local Fusion HCI filesystem. This defeats the purpose of using Discover to ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Fusion HCI Regional DR with Scale protocol instead of NFSv3

Using NFSv3 across WAN links can be impossible when customers are using IP renaming technology (via VIP and WIPs). The hard dependency on NFSv3 for AFM-DR (regional DR) has been lifted by the Scale team as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review