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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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Modify hardware affinity after deployment

After deploying two seperate servers and setting up and configuring PowerHA on them I would like to midify the hardware affinity of them so they will always run on different hardware for the nodes in the cluster. Currently affinity can only be set...
over 4 years ago in Power 1 Delivered

Add "enable IP forwarding" feature on a VPC VSI's NIC

All other major cloud service providers have the feature to enable IP forwarding on a VM 's NIC. In Azure it's called "enable IP forwarding": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-network-interface#enable-or-disabl...
over 4 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

New SKUs for LogDNA

LogDNA has been working with Alex Parker about 2 new SKUs for IKS baremetal. Hot: 32x384, 1.9TB SSD secondary, 3.8TB SSD local Cold: 32x384, 1.9TB SSD secondary, 6x3.8TB SSD local THis idea is to faciliate status updates between IBM and LogDNA
over 4 years ago in Bare Metal 0 Delivered

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared Supporting Zerto

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared should support Zerto for DR
about 5 years ago in VMware Solutions 0 Delivered

Add leading zero to host numbering in IBM Cloud for VMware

The hostname numbering when creating a VCS cluster and adding hosts should be in format where the hostnames display with leading zeros for the number. For example, the first hostname should be esxi00, not esxi0. This allows the hostnames to be sor...
over 6 years ago in VMware Solutions 0 Delivered

Provide extended storage for SAP HANA bare metal servers to allow dual use as QA and DR

It is common cost saving architecture in large SAP HANA deployments to enable dual use of HANA systems and QA and DR.In this scenario the QA box is running in the DR DC and additionally receives the life data replication of the prod environment.So...
over 6 years ago in Bare Metal 2 Delivered

Fixed public IPs manageable by user

Because sometimes, a VMs fails, so generate a new one creates a new IP, but if IP of first IP was given in a CVs or link in a forum, then it fails because it goes to the first failing IP.
over 8 years ago in Virtual Servers 1 Delivered