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IBM Storage Insights

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Provide More Granular DS8 Capacity Reporting for Storage Insights Hosts and Volumes

Please provide the ability to capture capacity information for hosts and volumes at a more granular level, eg hourly/sample vs just a single daily entry. The array overall we can see capacity data at least to an hourly level, so this would allow u...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Allow global Filter/search across entire SI Instance

When I have multiple devices in my environment, I need a quick way to drill down to what device is of immediate concern. If I get CRC errors from a WWPN, I need to search my SI instance for which array is presenting that WWPN. If I need to grow a ...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

SI to Show Expert Care Capacity Licensing in Portal in Addition to Existing Previous Subscription Models

With the change to SI capacity for DS8's being included as part of Expert Care entitlements instead of as a separate subscription, the Storage Insights portal currently will only still show just the licensed capacity for the older style subscripti...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Storage Insights to report power supply issues in FlashSystem

Currently Storage Insights health status for a FlashSystem doesn't raise any alerts for power supply failure or power input issue. Everything shows green until the customer is notified via call-home or SNMP alerts set at the system level. The cust...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights should not report a node is in error status, if the cluster is being upgraded.

If a cluster is being updated, all of the nodes are going to be offline at some point. That is expected. One shouldn't receive a notice that "Storage System Node Status Is Error ". SI should know that an upgrade is being performed, so it doesn't n...
about 1 year 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 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Change capacity limit for file storage systems

The new capacity planning report functionality tracks against a capacity limit of 100%. However, customers may have a threshold for implementing administrative controls on growth, data migration, or initiating new purchases. It would be helpful to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Resources > Hosts view does not show the Health Summary status table

The Hosts view (Resources > Hosts) does not show the Health Summary status table at the top of the page, next to the device image. In comparison, reviewing all the other Resource views, they all have the Health Summary status table: - Resources...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights to include DS8 Hostconnect Column on HBA View

For the IBM DS8 systems, on the Related Resources > Hosts > HBAs view, there are columns for name/status/type/WWPN/IQN/Associated Drives, but the column that would be most helpful is to list the associated host that the HBA login is related to.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration