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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.

IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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IP Quorum for PBHA Rescan Automatic

IBM L3 told me this: When the application (IP Quorum) starts, it uses a configuration file that includes the management IPs of both systems but only the service IPs for the system where the app was created. If the app cannot contact the management...
6 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
22 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Incorporate Google and MS Authenticators to FlashSystem MFA

Currently the supported MFAs are Duo and IBM Verify.I received a few requests from customers that do not work with Verify nor Duo, and requested to have the other options as well.
26 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Reintroduce the option in the GUI – Modify Mirror Sync Rate

A few days ago, I had a customer complaining about slow mirror synchronization performance.He even went as far as threatening to return two FlashSystem 7300 units because of the perceived sync speed issue.He was only convinced that there was no st...
28 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Submitted

CCU Checker enhancement

Enhance the blocking feature of CCU Checker so that it can distinctly handle update errors when there is a risk of severe impact to hosts and volumes. Handle errors with methods that prevent any circumvention without IBM second level approval.
28 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted