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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Cloud and its 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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Virtual Servers

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Status page with GPU resource availability per zone

We sometimes are using large GPU accelerated instances (H200, Gaudi 3 etc.) in IBM cloud and have run into the problem that when we provision a new instance there are no resources of the correct profile available in our preferred zone. It takes ab...
1 day ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Submitted

Check price of base image

Hi, Often when I launch an Ubuntu 22.04 Linux virtual machine, the pricing summary will show something like $2.45/hour. If there are 730 hours in a month, then $2.45 * 730 = $ 1788.5/month for the free open-source Ubuntu software. This price is st...
20 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

PASS_MAX_DAYS setting

Hi, The typical default for password expiration on Ubuntu in /etc/login.defs is "PASS_MAX_DAYS 99999" which means effectively it's not enabled, unless you choose to modify the setting. However, on the image " Ubuntu Linux 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Min...
20 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Under review

IBMi PowerVS cloud VNC web console - Consider increase the idle timeout from default 30 minutes to 30 hours

This idea is to increase the idle time for the Cloud VNC web console for IBMi LPARs. As a customer are impacted due to default idle time out of 30 minutes causing our Connections to drop with Console and Restricted backup or Maintenance performed ...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 1 Under review

Allow more than 10TB to be exported to COS.

Hello good afternoon. I'm here on behalf of one of our Customers, to ask that IBM Cloud allow us to make a PowerVS image export to COS, when the image is bigger than 10TB. Give us at least 15TB or 20TB, pleeease. Use case: Image capture and export...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

Allow for VPC boot disk sizes greater than 250GiB

Currently, VPC boot disks are limited to a max of 250GiB. We have use-cases where having larger boot disk sizes (e.g. 512GiB or 1TiB) would be adventageous. Other cloud providers that we have tested, allow for boot disk sizes in the mulitples of T...
12 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

About the additional event notification when the maintenance time is extended

Hello. I've already mentioned in following Case, maintenance was not completed by the end time in notification that had been issued beforehand. Allowing degraded operation in only during the maintenance time, we switch our application to BCP site,...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Provide larger swap disks with VM instances

Currently IBM provides a "swap" disk (labelled as such in both the portal and Windows) of only 2GB, regardless of VM instance size. This is too small to actually function as a swap disk for the vast majority of VMs. Indeed Windows will ignore this...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 4 Future consideration

VM hibernation capability for IBM VPC instances

Introduce the ability to hibernate Windows or Linux VMs in the IBM Cloud VPC infrastructure. This would persist the memory state of the VM, effectively stopping the VM and halting hourly billing. Currently, when a VM is stopped, without hibernatio...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Add more languages to the 5250 web console

I have opened an IBM Cloud support case #CS3709065 When retrieving the available languages on the Web UI or with IBM Cloud CLI on SAO instances (same in Dallas and WDC and I guess on all countries) we can see these: 939 Japan (Latin Extended) 939 ...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 5 Future consideration