Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 16, 2013
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit SCSI-I-501 Please add formal support for "Storage Groups" on SVC/V7K.

Need "Storage Group" functionality for shared vDisks, as well as support for non-shared vDisks. Merged

We would like functionality to define a "Cluster" on SVC, similar to RFE 26871. (original RFE referred to this as a "Storage Group") This is needed to support our larger VMware clusters and some of our Linux clusters.

In addition to what is being requested in 26871 though, we need the ability to allow for some non-shared vDisks to be mapped to individual hosts that belong to this same cluster. For us, these are typically going to be for our Linux hosts.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize

  • Guest
    Reply
    |
    Jan 8, 2014

    After reviewing this request we concluded that the function to define a "Cluster" as requested here, would be addressed in the way we have designed to roll out the "Storage Group" implementation in the RFE you already referenced.  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=26871   We will add this to the comments of that RFE as a function needing to be handled and addressed with its eventual roll out.