IBM - Cloud, PowerVS and Ceph aaS - Structured Ideas

This portal is to open public enhancement requests. 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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Compute

    Showing 81

    Support from RedHat Openshift Virtualization on IBM Classic Bare Metal

    Hi, Since a lot of customers are now moving from VMware to alternatives it would make a lot of sense to support RedHat Openshift Virtualization (OVE) on IBM Classic Bare Metal. This since customers need a good virtualization alternative.
    3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Bare Metal 3 Not under consideration

    Proposal: Process Improvement for Floating IP Confirmation During VSI Deprovisioning

    Background In IBM Cloud’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environment, a Floating IP is typically used to enable external access to a Virtual Server Instance (VSI).Since Floating IPs can be detached and reused across multiple resources, they provide f...
    3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

    When deleting a Virtual Server Instance (VSI), the default state of the "Release the VSN attached to this instance" switch should be set to OFF.

    If the switch is left ON—whether due to oversight or misunderstanding—the Virtual Serial Number (VSN) will be released. This can lead to unintended consequences in scenarios where the VSN is intended to be retained for redeployment. For instance, ...
    3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

    Add Japanese image to PowerVS

    Currently, PowerVS only offers 2924/2984 as its IBM i boot image selection. I'd like a Japanese image, even if it's just as a secondary language. Setting up a separate COR server and installing Japanese would take a significant amount of time. Inc...
    4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Not under consideration

    add connection setting to enable connectivity between CPD aaS IKC and Reporting DB on Azure

    The customer is working with CPDaaS in EU/FRA. The customer wants to use the DQ reporting service of IKC. For this reason the customer wants to store DQ reporting information within an Azure DB. The customer is not allowedto store reporting inform...
    4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Satellite 0 Under review

    Block the creation of a public subnet/interface in PowerVS workspaces at Enterprise Level or IAM

    Banco Itau wants to hide/block the creation of the public subnet and/or powervs vm public interface. There must be a way to block this creation at Enterprise level or an IAM action specific for PowerVS public interface. In VPC environment we have ...
    5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Future consideration

    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...
    7 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Under review

    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...
    8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 4 Is a defect

    Upgrade / Update IBM Power Server Firmware using Ansible.

    We can automate the process of upgrade / update Firmware for IBM Power Server using Ansible so that we can save time and effort.
    8 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Not under consideration

    Accessing Power VS VM instance by using serial console

    We would like to access our Power VS VM instances via their serial consoles similar to how it is done with IBM VPC: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vsi_is_connecting_console&interface=api
    9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Not under consideration

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.