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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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Compute

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Enable Monitoring for ESXi Running on Classic BareMetal Servers and Extend PowerVS Monitoring in Tor01, MON01, Dallas 12 and WDC7

Hello, based on the request from support team, I request to enable Monitoring for ESXi Running on Classic BareMetal Servers and Extend PowerVS Monitoring in Tor01, MON01, Dallas 12 and WDC7. We have few customers who are aggressively looking to mi...
7 months ago in Bare Metal 1 Functionality already exists

Allow to connect to the IBM Cloud portal from VPC and PowerVS instances (without Internet access)

Sometimes we need to automate or script some actions on our VMs or LPARs for backup, restore, and management purposes. It would be great to connect to the portal using the CLI or APIs pointing to a local address (maybe the gateway)
8 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

Availability of Ubuntu images with GPU drivers

Can the cloud virtualization team put out an OS image of Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 with the GPU drivers installed, so that one can start the VM and the GPU just works? That would be of immense helps for customers - currently it takes some trial and er...
8 months ago in Compute 0 Planned for future release

SSH Keys Visible Across Workspaces

SSH Keys are visible across Power Workspaces despite of zone or region. It should be only visible inside the particular workspace only.
8 months ago in Power 0 Not under consideration

Storage template for Hitachi storage in IBM Cloud Satellite

Add supported storage template for Hitachi storage in IBM Cloud Satellite. There is a existing CSI https://knowledge.hitachivantara.com/Documents/Adapters_and_Drivers/Storage_Adapters_and_Drivers/Containers/Storage_Plug-in_for_Containers. This wou...
8 months ago in Satellite 0 Future consideration

Request for disclosure of knowledge regarding various XenTools issues held by IBM Cloud Support

Currently, our customers are trying to upgrade Xen Tools on VSI. However, they are encountering various difficulties. I'm guessing that IBM Cloud support has also received various inquiries about upgrading XenTools. As a result, I think IBM Cloud ...
9 months ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Add webhook uri to Transient virtual servers IBM Cloud Interface

It's usefull to be able to add/remove a webhook url from the IBM Cloud Portal Interface for Transient virtual servers and not using just the Softlayer API SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest::setTransientWebhook.
about 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 2 Future consideration

Ubuntu20 support for classic infrastructure

Recently we got email about EOL for Ubuntu16. So the only option will be Ubuntu18 soon. We need to resetup plenty of servers, so it would be great to go with Ubuntu20 at once
over 3 years ago in Compute 0 Planned for future release

Need VMs resource ID on Event Activity Tracker Log

Hi We are not getting VMs resource ID in LogDNA payload. I have observed that for every resource we didn't get resource ID. we need resource ID for get specific resource details.
about 4 years ago in Compute 1 Not under consideration

Classic instructor VSI configuration check when changing configuration

Since it is used from Softlayer itself, vCPU and RAM can be selected respectively, Selecting 32GB of RAM from the pulldown did not cause an error. Therefore, I thought that I could order without problems and adjusted the work. However, in reality,...
about 4 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration