IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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SVC GUI SCU calculator

SVC SCU calculation is physical capacity-based with a disk type conversion factor value (Calculation Terms: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/?id=L-PGBC-EPMNYG&lc=en). SVC GUI show the compressed space mounted; this is higher fro...
8 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Repurpose AFM as Service Node on Fusion HCI

We have customers that purchased racks with AFM nodes and did not have service nodes. Many have converted from GDP to FDF and now have AFM that are not used. Can we convert the AFM nodes to service nodes?
3 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Identify SVC/IBM Storage Virtualize volume when RTD is detected on backend FlashSystem

When Real-time Threat Detection/RTD detects suspicious activity on an IBM FlashSystem that is used as backend storage behind IBM SAN Volume Controller/IBM Storage Virtualize, the current event information identifies the affected backend FlashSyste...
23 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

add the ability to sort by Storage systems in the flash grid Storage systems page

when you log into the storage flash grid and go to Storage systems, there is no way to sort. by being able to click on the Storage systems bar to sort would make it alot easier to locate storage systems.
4 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Add guided diagnostics for IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore issues

IBM Storage Fusion should provide a guided diagnostics function for Backup & Restore problems directly in the Fusion UI. When Backup & Restore components fail, administrators often need to manually inspect OpenShift resources such as pods,...
16 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Add an intelligent Recipe Generator to the IBM Storage Fusion UI

IBM Storage Fusion should provide an intelligent Recipe Generator directly in the Fusion UI. One of the greatest strengths and most valuable capabilities of IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore is its ability to process recipes, enabling applic...
16 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Improve certificate lifecycle visibility in IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore

IBM Storage Fusion should provide better visibility into the certificates and TLS secrets used by the Backup & Restore service. In production environments, Backup & Restore depends on several internal certificates and Kubernetes secrets. W...
16 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

The option to display host site column in Gui was removed in 8630 and above, we want it added again.

The option to display host site column in Gui was removed in 8630 and above. Client want to be able to have it added again. It does allow you to set the site normally when creating host, and "lshost" also shows the host site, but in GUI there is n...
18 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

IBM FUSION DATA FOUNDATION - ROUTE SERVICES

Banco do Brasil provisioned CP4D using the IBM Fusion Data Foundation essentials that they are entitled. Due to a client policy, it's prohibited to use the default cluster name to route services that are run from the cluster. So, it's required to ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion Under review

IBM block storage CSI driver, increase ssh connections on FlashSystem

Who benefits: OpenShift customers with one FlashSystem, but more than one Openshift Cluster How it should work: the FlashSystem Software should increase the number of SSH connections. This enable customers to use a single FlashSystem as a Storag...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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