IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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IBM Storage Insights

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    Allow the ability to run a report that will provide the differences between two policies

    I need to track all of the customizations between the default policies and the custom ones. Right now, I need to document that by hand. It would be far better to be able to run a report and have it provide the information. I also could see the use...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Collect SAN portnames/labels of FC ports

    we have lots of customers using insights for SAN monitoring and it would be very helpful to collect portnames, all customers label the ports with the device connected and that label/portname tell us what is wrong when using alert policies, not jus...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add Applications to REST API

    I would like applications to be added to the REST API. That way I can get metrics for Applications I setup in Storage Insights Pro. In particular, I want to be able to create dashboards in Grafana for Applications.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux

    Support for performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux on SI.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Ability to open a case via Storage Insights for Brocade switches.

    Clients are currently unable to open a case to IBM support via Storage Insights for any added to their instance Brocade switch. A feature allowing this would be nice.
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Reports need to include graphs

    We simply need the ability to include the displayed graph that is visible on dashboards or performance reports when we choose the "Create Report" option. All of the reporting options are currently text based and can include an over time reports bu...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Staged severity level for software code level warnings

    In the Advisor section you get hints when your code is below minimum level. It's even called a software warning. We propose to raise it as alert, when on an EOS code version, as wraning when you are below minimum level and as informational when yo...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add the ability to track licensing of SCU and TiB in Storage Insights

    With the move to adopt SI and eliminate the need for an on-prem Spectrum Control instance, one area that we cannot track in SI is Licensing. Today in Control we can list out all 4 tiers and usage of SCU and TiB. This report is useful for yearly su...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Control Storage Insights to have multiple data collection targets for a single Spectrum Scale Environment

    Currently Spectrum Control Storage Insights, can only target one Spectrum Scale node for data collection.
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add aborted command/transfer metrics to SI

    Spec V systems don't incorporate response time metrics into the performance stats for IOs that were aborted. The hosts would have actually been impacted by these IOs because IOs are typically aborted once they have hit some kind of timeout value. ...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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