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add graphs to reports

when creating performance reports and chosing PDF or HTML as the preferred format, it would be very helpful to include a graph of the selected metrics as well. (much like in the upper half of the SI performance view.)
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Rename the Custom tag 1 (2 and 3)

Resources -> Block Storage Systems -> Select a Storage ->View Properties is showing the fields: Custom Tag 1 Custom Tag 2 Custom Tag 3 Resources -> Pools -> Select a Pool -> View Properties is also showing the fields named: Custo...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Units of Measurements in Storage Data to be displayed in Base 10

It would be greatly helpful for the Resource Unit Billing teams and IBM user group to see the option of selecting the Storage Metrics display using Base 10, in addition to Base 2 that currently exist.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

Selectable location for Cloud instance (compliancy with regulations - showstopper to use SI)

Banking customer requires their Storage Insights instance to be hosted in Europe. If not, they are not allowed to use Storage Insights. Customer would therefore also have to be able to select the location for their instance.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Create alerting's for any of the CPU core

Alerting on one CPU core % utilization can be very useful to detect possible issues the system As SpecV device can have up to 32 CPU core this means that user need to select and configure one alert for each of the core. As the threshold will be th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Reporting capacity in a clustered environment is challenge.

Today we have an option to select several hosts and click merge host but this is a timing consuming, manual process in a large shop. We need a better option to recognize hosts that are in a clustered relationship. Looking at hosts that can see the...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

"Totals" option for adding up how Volumes and Utilization per Application

When certain reports are selected, the ability to SUM certain fields that are selected into a "Total Summary" at the top of a report would very helpful. In the reports lets say we select Volume Report and then select the columns we want to see. Be...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Capacity/trending charting and/or min|max|avg for a given time series for a given Application Group

Ability to create utilization charts/trends that span over a selected time series for applications or groups. We have the ability to see snapshot data today, but no easy way to see the data over time. I would like to be able to see a similar graph...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow creation of multi condition rules with selection of different (connected) devices

Currently when we create an alert all the criteria available in the Alert Definition are related to the specific selected device, As now we have SAN Switch supported by SI ( but this is valid as well for Server) , this would be very beneficial to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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