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IBM Storage Insights

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Offer alerting creation based on variation of the metric

In the same way that this is offered today with "Storage System , capacity, total compression, changes ", any other attribute (from other cateogries and componenent) should allow to specifc a change % value as trigger of the alerting
about 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 ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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 ...
about 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.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Functionality already exists

Mobile usability for SI

Unlike Spectrum Control, which requires access to a corporate network, presumably through either a VPN or a physical (wired or wireless), it is possible to access SI anywhere. The app appears to be responsive (sizing correctly when viewed on a pho...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1

Add Spectrum Visualize internode cluster traffic to Spectrum Control and Storage Insights

There isn't a way in SC or SI to monitor this performance.
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.
over 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...
over 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SI Pro Software Update Recommendations to List Current/Minimum/Recommended levels in More Information field

In the Storage Insights Notifications there are new notifications for Software Update Recommendations. Under the More Information field no information is shown, but if the alert is opened up then it shows the Current/Minimum/Recommended Level in a...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration