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IBM Storage Insights

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Enable a user to change the time zone within browser view of metrics

When I view performance metrics for a given Storage Virtualize (StorV) cluster SI renders time based on browser time zone setting. My investigation of performance issues would more efficient If I could change the time zone to match the time zone o...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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

Update device password through the REST API

Per Security policy the passwords on our Brocade switches need to be changed every 90 days. With more than 200 Switches in the environment, its not feasible to change the password through an User Interface, whereby we have automated the password c...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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
about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

More functionality for ESS/SCALE

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation:And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots Ov...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add performance statistics for IP Ports for iSCSI/Host workload

Storage Insights has good performance reporting capabilities for individual fibre channel ports, but there currently is no capability to look at the performance of IP ports that are performing host workloads (iSCSI/RDMA/NVMe). With the wide adapti...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Storage Insights - Add individual server performance stats

Request for Storage Insights and Spectrum Control to be able to provide individual server performance statistics. Currently SI and SC cannot provide individual performance statistics for a specific host. When you look at the servers, they are show...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights. Also there are multiple KVM offerings available, which can be evaluated to add support in Storage Insights.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration