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IBM Spectrum Control

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Physical Usable capacity view in License Compliance Tab

Need the ability to display Physical Usable capacity in the Spectrum Control License Compliance Tab. Many customers that are virtualizing IBM storage behind San Volume Controller are licensed based on "Physical Usable" capacity so their licensed c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Consider automatic column width in tables based on actual data

When a tabular data is first viewed within Spectrum Control, Sometimes the column is much too narrow to display the actual data and sometimes many columns are too narrow and time must be invested adjusting the column widths to make the data readab...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Add Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) lslicense information to Spectrum Control

Add a report to Spectrum Control which gives an overview of the required licenses for all monitored SVC clusters. (SVC CLI lslicense output). The current SCU license overview (settings->licensing) are the licenses needed for Spectrum Control wh...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Support for EMC PowerMax storage systems

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Storage Device hierarchy - Virtualizer vs Storage devices

Spectrum Control must provide a hierarchical view of storage devices to show dependencies between backend devices and storage virtualisers such as Spectrum Virtualise or Scale.Today all are considered Storage devices and presented through a flat v...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Control Probe Execution Scheduling Customization below 24 hours

The Data Collection Schedule or Probe Scheduling does not go below an "Every Day" or 24 hours. I would like to be able to schedule the probe to execute multiple times through out a 24 hour period. Having the capability to customize the schedule to...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Future consideration

Make reports that are saved into the report folder available via the GUI

Many people don't login to the Control host when accessing Control, it's more common accessed via a web browser. If your environment hasn't been setup for email it makes accessing reports very difficult. Especially when you don’t want regular emai...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Improve Host reporting in Spectrum Control

Spectrum Control has some ability to report hosts that are making use of resources, such as volumes on a Spectrum Virtualize pool. But this reporting is not complete.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Spectrum Control Storage Consumer report does not work when using DRP on SVC

Storage consumer report can use Capcacity or Allocated Spaces on volumes when generating a report. Allocated space on a volume is not counted when using DRP (Data Reduction Pool) on a storage system and reported as 0. It is not possible to determi...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Contol and Dell/EMC VPLEX

We would like to Spectrum Control to monitor Dell/EMC VPLEX. We use SC to monitor most of our IBM Storwize/SVC installations. We use performance monitor to look at performance statistics and array monitoring for alerting, reporting and billing. We...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

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