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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    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...
    8 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    More focus on stretched Scale for DR with Fusion HCI

    I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: Two separate OpenShift clusters (DR), one/site where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using failure groups.
    8 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Allow PVCs to use storage class with waitForFirstConsumer volumeBindingMode during restore operation

    In multi-availability zone (AZ) environments, when a PVC is created with the volumeBindingMode set to Immediate, it is pre-created within a random availability zone. When the pod is created later to consume it, if it is not created in the same AZ,...
    about 11 hours ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter

    Many clients at Middle East have only 2 sites as Prod and DR. They meet requirement of <10ms RTT latency between sites. They'd like to run HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter on Fusion HCI system. RH was not supporting running HCP control plane on base cluster ...
    18 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Fusion HCI VM HCP clusters with GDP remote mount

    The reason for this feature is that many customers utilize Scale/ESS for their data storage and want to have the ability to directly access this data through remote mounts from containers running on VM HCP (Hosted Control Plane) clusters within Fu...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Retention Sets and transitioning to new tape technology.

    Hello,There are customers who need to retain data for more than 10 years. However, a problem arises regarding technology lifecycles, as servers, disk arrays, and tape libraries are typically replaced every 5-10 years.Consequently, the customer fac...
    19 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Fusion HCI with SAN HBAs for Fusion Access

    Fusion Access enables customers to use their existing SAN Block-Storage on OpenShift with our gpfs filesystem, which has significant advantages over block based CSI drivers!Unfortunately, this is only supported on Fusion SDS, as Fusion HCI does no...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Automate Fusion and OpenShift upgrades and cluster release via RedFish APIs

    Reducing time to deploy new OpenShift clusters in Fusion and upgrade both OpenShift and Fusion via RedFish APIs could help increase deployment tasks and reduce human errors
    about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Safe Bucket Policy Handling with generateBucketName

    Environment: IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation / ODF 4.19.1 Rook-Ceph Operator Buckets provisioned via ObjectBucketClaims (OBCs) GitOps automation using Helm + Argo CD generateBucketName used for dynamic bucket namin Problem Summary: Destructive ...
    6 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Enhancement to Fusion HCI GDP metro DR

    Fusion HCI Metro DR for VM requires admin to manually copy the VM yaml to DR HCI during failover. This is not automated and error prone. Customer who use HCI for VM, will run thousands of VMs. This is not practical to do it manually. Request to au...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Functionality already exists

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