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IBM Storage Insights

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Consider SFP specification (LW, ELW, SW) port speed as attribute for alerting creation

SI allow to create alerting related to SFP spec like power or DB, these spec my differ depending of the type of SPF in use Alerting creation should allow to to specify the type of SFP when creating an alerting some spec are as well related to the ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SI/SC makes reconciliation between custom and default alert policies different

SI and SC do not allow for modifying default alert policies; customer modifications require creating new policies.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Report sorting/filter options so we can view scheduled jobs or by other custom group

With the ever growing list of reports that are being created it is getting a bit of a hassle to find the report I need. I think we need to be able to filter by active/scheduled and also by a "folder" for use as a client,manager,team, etc. It could...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

add "estimated time to full" on the reports

The on prem version of Storage Insights has the ability to have a column with "estimated time to full", which is important to our environment, this is not available on the cloud version of the software.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Functionality already exists

Collect Spectrum Virtualize raw stats

There are times where the storage insights performance data is not detailed enough or is not collecting some metrics that we need to understand performance issues.We would like to be able to enable raw stats collection where the SI data collector ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Tickets created with SI should have same info added to the ticket when created by phone home

When an SVC "phones home", the ticket generated includes the following information - Client would like this same information automatically generated when they create a ticket with SI. Today, only the serial number is passed. Client does leverages ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Insights NAME field to reflect HMC NAME field or add it into Insights

It has come to our attention that the NAME field within Insights is actually a reference to the VOLSER from the HMC system. This i s normally not a problem, except on a multi-client box where we put the client name/code in the NAME Field. Without ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Enabling the NVMe over TCP/IP with 5G network connectivity

1- Adding Advanced functionalities with easy programming for storage operations. 2- Enabling Fast, Standard, Reliable and Remote Storage Area Networking.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

SI should flag/alert when firmware or microcode level is End Of Support

I would like to see (Maybe in Insights Advisor) if the Storage Firmware or Software is End Of Support. On IBM SVC family for example.. SVC hardware node may not be end of support, but it’s running a firmware code stream that IS end of support. Thi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SIP & SC: allow wildcards in the exclude list for storage reclamation

Storage Insights for Spectrum Control environment: "Reclaim storage" is useful, but customers need more handle on the exclude list. Now they can exclude volumes from the reclaim storage list, but customer wants to exclude certain partial volume na...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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