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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...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

Protect option on specific PowerVS VSIs

Please, add a checkbox to lock unexpected VSI removal. We are cloning PowerVS VSIs for test purposes with a schedulled task/job, and our concern is we could delete by error the production system. My request: A mechanism to lock VSIs manually, so w...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Planned for future release

Native Geometric Benchmark for Quantum Processors

1.The area law provides a universal, hardware-agnostic metric for multi-mode entanglement fidelity. Current IBM Quantum systems (e.g., ibm_sherbrooke, ibm_brisbane) achieve >99% two-qubit gate fidelity, yet multi-mode GHZ fidelity decays rapidl...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / AI / Machine Learning 1 Not under consideration

Notification of change in log retention period

Per checking audit log on portal, the retention period is infinite. I want to be notified when the log retention period is changed.I would like users to be able to check the log retention period.
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compute 0 Under review

Quantum-Cognitive Autonomous Cloud Fabric (Q-CACF): AI-Driven Multi-Cloud, Edge, and Quantum Orchestration Platform with Self-Trust, Compliance, and Dynamic Data Gravity Balancing

The invention provides an AI-driven, quantum-assisted multi-cloud orchestration fabric that autonomously manages workload placement, trust verification, data movement, and policy governance across heterogeneous environments including public, priva...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Platform AI 7 Not under consideration

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

Request for Secrets Manager a free plan "Reserved Insance" Customer

Since this week the Certificate Manager was moved off and replaced by the Secret Manager. We are using APIc v10 RI where there was a free plan for the certificate manager, which was perfect for us. Now, we need to pay for the new Secret Manager 29...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager 2 Future consideration

Notification for BCS/FCS B side failure

We heard that the emergency announce will be reported only when BCS/FCS both A/B side are on failure, and there are no announcement when only BCS/FCS B side failure is on failure. But I want a announcement. Because we are using both BCS/FCS and wh...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / VLAN 0 Not under consideration

Monitoring shared pool utilization

I would like to know the real/effective CPU utilization PowerVS shared pool in IBM Cloud. I have LPARs in pools that are lacking of compute. Before adding additionnal CE to those LPARs I need to know/validate if shared pool are correctly sized, an...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 2 Functionality already exists

Console for PowerVS via IBMCloud GUI

This idea was created a while back (IDEA-I-3218), and closed, with the only real comment from a developer being that they were not responsible for PowerVS. I should also comment that this problem only really applies to booting the PowerVS instance...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 13 Planned for future release