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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...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add alerting for failed login on storage devices

It would be handy to be able to enable alert policies to send an alert when a user fails to authenticate when attempting to log into a system. I know that can be seen from syslog, but it would be handy to simply trigger an alert in Storage Insight...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Interactive performance charts

My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

consolidated ticket overview

In environments with many devices it would be very handy to have a consolidated view showing the status for all tickets of all devices. A simple table view would do, showing for example the device name, number of open tickets, number of closed tic...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review

REST API to get performance metrics (including RPO) for volume groups

Need a REST API to get the performance metrics for volume groups that are displayed in Storage Insights. This includes the RPO metrics.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Ability to monitor Tape devices

Customer would like the ability to monitor Tape devices in Storage Insights
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Performance tables to have a Totals row at bottom to sum the values

On all of the performance tables, it would be nice to have a "Totals" row at bottom to sum the values of each column.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Tape Library Support

Add support for IBM tape libraries in Spectrum Control and Storage Insights to monitor code levels, performance of robotics, performance of tape drives and capacity of the library.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

There is a need for the Call Home functionality to be managed from Storage Insights.

Customers are reporting a need (due to security teams) for Call Home requests to be fully handled by Storage Insight, not by FlashSystem arrays
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

Rename the Custom tag 1 (2 and 3)

Resources -> Block Storage Systems -> Select a Storage ->View Properties is showing the fields: Custom Tag 1 Custom Tag 2 Custom Tag 3 Resources -> Pools -> Select a Pool -> View Properties is also showing the fields named: Custo...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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