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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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Details behind error condition with LPARs in PowerVS

Example: Attempted to deploy 2 LPARs in PowerVS, one would consistently fail - going into error state, with no other details. Tried a number of times to redeploy the one LPAR with the same result. Atempted the next day and it worked. . I checked w...
almost 3 years ago in Power 51 Not under consideration

Identifying a VPC Gen 2 Block Storage from inside a VSI

Hi as a Cloud Operator, I woule like to build some VSI on VPC Gen 2 (Linux and Windows) with several volumes attached during the provisioning step. Some of them have the same size but different functions. So I need to know which VPC Block Storage ...
about 3 years ago in Virtual Servers 2 Functionality already exists

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
about 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.
almost 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,...
almost 4 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

AC Battery

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Power 1 Not under consideration

Stop recommending a Java applet for KVM access

Java applets have been banned by most browsers for several years. Getting one running is enormously difficult. Yet the KVM for your VSIs (which runs bog-standard unencrypted VNC) still pushes the use of a Java applet and someone has to dig through...
over 4 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

Disregard

No description provided
over 4 years ago in VMware Solutions 0 Not under consideration

Lack of local storage Scalability for virtual servers (VSI)

We are using different compute and storage resources on IBM Cloud.Unfortunately SAN based Storage for VSI's as well as Performance/Endurance storage, periodically impacted by high Network utilization, and our Production systems freezing.That is wh...
over 5 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

VMWare on IBM Cloud Needing Expedited SOC II Type 2 Document

Fluor corporation opportunity: EA-5QWUUF7 is for an initial workload on IBM Cloud VMWare. Fluor has 4000 Virtual Machines and this opportunity represents roughly 50. Unfortunately, the Fluor CISO, has declined VMware since it doesn't have a SOC II...
almost 6 years ago in VMware Solutions 2 Not under consideration