IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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IBM Storage Insights

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    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.
    over 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

    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...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Track data collector upgrade attempts (successful and failed)

    Storage Insights records the time of the last data collector upgrade and upgrade version on the data collectors panel, but it does not record task activity or audit log entries for attempts to upgrade the data collectors. This activity should be r...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add monitoring of *_free_memory on io groups

    Hello, it would be nice to have monitoring of *_free_memory on SVC/FlashSystem. remote_copy_free_memorymirroring_free_memoryflash_copy_free_memory This would help with monitoring of remaining memory left for bitmap copies. Setting up alert policy ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Drive reporting for SI

    IBM sometimes releases FLASHes for drive firmware issues. Although the Advisor should catch this, there isn't a simple way to generate reports for all drives known to SI. The only method for doing this appears to be to create a drive report for ea...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Future consideration

    add a button on the policys page for email testing

    when you set up policys for alerts, there is no way to test to make sure it works..we use ops genie and it would be nice to confirm it is working
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Storage Insights Ceph integration : To show all meta data

    Full fledged Ceph-SI integration with complete meta data collection of the Ceph cluster including Capacity, Performance metrics. Also to include ticketing, advisories, L2/L3 view features. Samsung / Joyent customer has requested for this.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Assignments panel needs to enhanced to display the ip address or WWN or switch name or at least the system UUID

    We also are unable to use Assignments to spread the workload because all the switches are listed with their Chassis Name, and we have a lot of switches of the same kind so its impossible to differentiate between which device is located where. Woul...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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