IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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IBM Storage Insights

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    SI "New Experience": add option to export graphs on storage system overview dashboard

    customer would like to export a daily graph of the top 10 vols data rate, of the last 24h
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Enable TS7700 monitoring, alerting, and reporting from Storage Insights

    For a more complete view of overall storage asset health, capacity, and utilization status from a single source, including the capability for TS7700 and TS4500 tape storage assets to take advantage of the same reporting, alerting, and automation S...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Performance data exported from SI should be in customer timezone

    Performance data exported from SI are always provided in CST timezone, not in customer timezone. this is a concert for the user
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

    Ability to monitor performance utilization. If a Datastore is performing too much IO, Add a mechanism to drill down to specific VM causing the performance impact within that datastore.

    Once vCenter is registered using “Add vCenter” successfully, corresponding hosts and virtual machines are listed (and can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu option). If user choose a particular “Virtual Machine “ it gives details , esp...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Graphical topology view VM -> datstore -> ESX -> Storage lun -> IBM FS9500 array.

    vCenter, Hosts, and Virtual Machines associated can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu table. If user clicks on a specific virtual machine, then under “Internal/Virtual Machine/ Related resources” panel it gives details about HBA, Driv...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    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 0 Planned for future release

    Enable storage firmware or patches upgrade via Storage Insights

    Storage Insights gives recommendations for firmware upgrades and security patch installs. For a huge storage customer base, the upgrading/installing would be time taking and error prone. Amadeus is one such customer who is looking for storage firm...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

    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
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

    It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Planned for future release

    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.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

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