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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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MetroDR and RegionalDR combination

Be able to have a "local" MetroDR pair that also replicates asynchronously to a third cluster using RegionalDR. This is not available today, as Ramen only supports peering two clusters. Anything that involves more than two clusters is not supporte...
5 days ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

Support OpenShift EUS (Extended Update Support) for IBM Fusion HCI

OpenShift EUS provides a stable, long-term support update channel with key advantages: Reduced update frequency (e.g., every 6 months instead of 3) Only one restart of non-control-plane nodes per update Shorter update duration Currently, IBM does ...
7 days ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

DS8910F REST-API Temperature

Hello IBM, we want to monitoring the temperature of the DS8910F. As we already know, there are three possible options: Option 1: The GUI shows the temperature as follows: GUI -> Monitoring -> Performance -> Metrics -> Environment ->...
24 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Another one is when will Bob on Storage Fusion be officially supported

These getting very common in Region like Europe and Middle East
25 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

fixcentral communications - 8.7.0.10

Hi Support, Please could you Post in RED/BOLD informing customers to not install, previous downloaded images. With the recent release of v8.7.0.10 and withdrawal from download site. we have flashsystem 5200 and flashsystem 5300. I downloaded v8.7....
26 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Easier hotfix awareness

At the moment, to be notified about a hotfix for IBM Storage Fusion, you either need to subscribe to the correct fusion notification subscription (there's at least 10 options) or have an issue a log a ticket to IBM support. Can a feature be built ...
26 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Send error notification in case a physical ISL in a PBHA System Partnership fails

Can the IBM issue an error notification by the FlashSystem, that is joining a PBHA relationship, in case a physical ISL fails, which is part of the related System Partnership ? It would be good to get a similar error notification as the Cluster Pa...
27 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Improve handling of Snapshot (hidden FCMap in stopping state) cleanup

Currently, there isn't much to indicate that a FlashSystem is having a hard time doing it's VolumeGroup Snapshot cleanup. If you look at the VG in the GUI, you'll see that the count of snapshots is greater than the number of snapshots that are act...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Track Thermal Throttling on Drives

We recently had a performance issue, that IBM support was able to track back to thermal throttling on a drive based on data from a Snap-4. Would it be possible to track this information in events so that we could have an insight into how frequentl...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Software Encryption of the Decryptioin key, stored on the USB Drives

Currently, one way of storing the decryption key is on USB drives. I know there are many encryption keys involved but the decryption process starts from that key on the USB drive if we have chosen this method. StorV stores the key unprotected on t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review