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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PINNED 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.
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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Auto create replication target volume when establising new metro/global mirror

    When creating a new metro or global mirror relationship , allow the option to automatically create the target volume similar to how flashcopy has the option.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Safeguarded Copy checking mechanism

    Our client is suggesting the following enhancement: inside SGC code define a checking mechanism to exactly point out the bad sector(s) or block(s) or LUN(s) potentially affected that will be isolated or made invalid and then provide a a valid copy...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    SCSI Unmap support for Huawei OceanStor Dorado V5/6

    Our German customer is using a lot of Huawei Arrays with SVC and need support for UNMAP command for external Huawei OceanStor Dorado storage.It is a very big and valuable customer
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Safeguarded Copy function for latest FlashSystem 5000 products.

    With the introduction of Safeguarded Copy Function, it was decided that a FlashSystem 5100 or greater is required to support this new functionality. Since many Flashsystem were sold to Small and Medium businesses or institutions, we are wondering ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Add "Remove" disk to Virtualize GUI

    Add "remove disk" function to the GUI. To remove a disk required using the CLI. In the above ticket, the SV1 phoned home for a drive throwing errors. It was determined the drive needed to be replaced. The SSR went on site and was working with the ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum virtulize should generate alert before rebuilding of a failed disk

    One of our customer have large infrastructure of IBM Storage deployed ,where IBM FS 840 /FS 900 / SVC / IBM V7000 / IBM FS 9150 / IBM FS 9200 installed across India. Although we have call home configured and working for all devices , fault like di...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Launch CLI from GUI

    I have received multiple requests from my customers to add the ability to launch the FlashSystem CLI from the GUI like other IBM products. Please consider adding this simple change.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    vdisk default caching IOgrp assignment

    Hi, While creating vdisk, Caching IOGRP assignment is automatic in a cluster containing more than 1 IOgrp. e.g. When vdisk is created on pool1 located on IOG1, its caching IOgrp by default should go to IOG1 maintaing local affinity in order to avo...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Increase the number of volumes that can be created in the Storewize from 512 to 1024

    Increase the number of volumes that can be created in the Storewize from 512 to 1024
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    SCSI UNMAP on pool level enable/ disable

    Enabling/disabling backend SCSI UNMAP on pool level.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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