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IBM Storage Insights

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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...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

General group alert thresholds should have the option of selecting aggregation or individual object

We require an alert definition for a specific scenario. The alert should trigger when the cumulative write data rate of HyperSwap volumes exceeds 2000MB/s. We cannot set the alert on the Pool component because the pool also contains non-HyperSwap ...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

SI "New Experience": add option to export graphs on storage system overview dashboard

customer would like to export a daily graph of the top 10 vols data rate, of the last 24h
9 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Allow more data points in SI Performace graphs & tables

Max 272 data points in SI for a selected performance metric (both on graph and in a table) is very often insufficient, and should be increased to 744 or more. This would allow Hourly data resolution display/table for a 1 month period (31*24). Or 5...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Unable to distinguish SI Pro trial from other SI Pro entitlements

Once the 60 day SI Pro trial is enabled, full feature SI Pro is available and there is nothing that allows you to distinguish that a trial is running and counting down. If the SI Pro license is upgraded during the trial period, there is nothing th...
10 days 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...
about 1 month 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.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

storage insight- Volume by host details

it will very easy to full the volume details which host it connected
10 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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