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IBM Storage Insights

Include WWNN as a property for DS8000 Storage Systems for the purpose of building PPRC Scripts

Storage Insights is so useful to pull data for the purpose of building PPRC scripts; however, when defining PPRC Paths, the WWNN of the remote DS8000 is required in the command. The WWNN can be retrived by issuing either of these DSCLI commands: l...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Provides a way to change the instance name, which is visible on the new Carbon-based UI.

An instance name is assigned when it is created and deployed. While it was not visible on the classic UI, it is clearly visible on the new Carbon-based UI which would surprises most customers; most customers would not remember they had chosen the ...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Is a defect

SI does not provide a way to investigate "Error" or "Warning" statuses in the "Health status" column for virtual machines.

IBM Storage Insights currently does not explain or provide a way to investigate "Error" or "Warning" statuses in the "Health status" column for virtual machines. As a result, administrators must manually check vCenter Server for details. Please en...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

SI Should Include FC Ports Current Speed as a Column

SI should include the Current Speed for FC Ports in the table. The table currently only lists the maximum possible speed of a port. The CurrentSpeed of the port is available from lsioport -metrics
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

Storage Insights - Add individual server performance stats

Request for Storage Insights and Spectrum Control to be able to provide individual server performance statistics. Currently SI and SC cannot provide individual performance statistics for a specific host. When you look at the servers, they are show...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Add monitoring of *_free_memory on io groups

Hello, it would be nice to have monitoring of *_free_memory on SVC/FlashSystem. remote_copy_free_memorymirroring_free_memoryflash_copy_free_memory This would help with monitoring of remaining memory left for bitmap copies. Setting up alert policy ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights Future consideration

Storage Insights needs end-to-end topology view

To investigate issues with performance or connectivity, end-to-end views are needed. These would show the server/host fibre connections to the SAN and to the SVC, likewise from SVC to the SAN to the backend storage. Possibly also show SVC host clu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

Drive reporting for SI

IBM sometimes releases FLASHes for drive firmware issues. Although the Advisor should catch this, there isn't a simple way to generate reports for all drives known to SI. The only method for doing this appears to be to create a drive report for ea...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights Future consideration

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...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Display more detailed information in the Storage Insights Ticket dashboard

SI is a great pan of glass to Monitor, Manage and track issue on storage environment.When using the Device Ticket Dashboard, user see only the ticket number ( RCMS, RETAIN , Salesforce) but detailed information are missing.
about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

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