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IBM Storage Insights

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Support for SI and SI PRO entitled storage sytsems in ONE instance - with SI PRO capabilities switched on / off according to system entitlement

As of today, we cannot have a mixture of SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems in one environment. SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems can reside in one SI instance, but to exploit SI PRO capabilities, a second SI instance for SI PRO entitled ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Populate contact info for ticket creation from Storage Insights

Current ticket creation workflow from SI relies on the user entering name, email, phone number for each ticket. This data is used to find a matching support contact to use for the case. Customers get confused when the support ticket ends up opened...
26 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

ALL volume view

As a spectrum control user there's the option to view ALL volumes without drilling to individual storage systems, This would be a very useful addition so Storage insights
17 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Assign an alias right at instance creation

When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Ability to create Custom Folders to store reports

Would like ability to create custom folders to store created reports other than the default folders provided. We have to scroll through a great number of reports to find those previously created.There is also no filter to help find generated repor...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

SI Data Collector in Windows should not relay on WMIC due to deprecation

The Windows data collector service relies on the WMIC command which has been deprecated since 2016 and it is recommended to replace its use with powershell functions. On newer Windows versions (eg 11 and 2025), WMIC is not installed by default, an...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Display the "IOPs limit" parameter in Storage Insights.

The lsvdisk command gives the information # svcinfo lsvdisk -delim , -gui -bytes 12 Tue Apr 15 11:22:05 PDT 2025id,12name,xxxxxxxxxxxIO_group_id,0IO_group_name,io_grp0status,onlinemdisk_grp_id,0mdisk_grp_name,XXXXXXXPoolcapacity,75161927680....com...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

SIPro to trigger SGCs on FlashSystem when malware is detected

To have a fast SGC triggered when malware is detected, we should enable SIPro to trigger such without Defender DRS. Now this can be done with webhooks- that requires no out-of-the-box solution and a lot of customization.
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Enable Zooming on Performance Graph

In Storage Insights when looking at Performance or Capacity, give the ability to click-select an area of the graph to adjust the Start/End time of the displayed graph to the area you select.
11 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Improve the Performance Investigation Interface

When I'm doing a performance investigation using Storage Insights, I often want to compare performance from a similar time frame on a different day or week, Right now to do this I have to go into the time-frame box, and select a different start an...
11 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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