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IBM Storage Insights

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Data collector incorporate in DS8K

Similar to CSM, Storage Insight Data collector can be built in the DS8K HMC by default for customer. This will allow the customer to easily consume the Storage Insight Service. This will increase Storage Insight usage and that will benefit the fut...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Group View by Location

Having a group view "by Location" would bring quite some releave and push effecientcy. With close to 200 Storage devices plus SAN Switches and 20+ Data Centers it would be beneficial for us to get directly the view of a single data center, rather ...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

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 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

When creating a support case, email contacts need to be included

When a support ticket is created within SI, no email contacts are included to alert the creator/team that the ticket exists or has updates. You must manually go check the ticket periodically to see if any updates have been posted. Could allow a de...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

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

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 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Dashboard "Volumes" option like On-Prem

In the On-Prem version of Insights (Spectrum Control), we have the "Volumes" option under "Storage" tab on dashboard panel which displays all the volumes from multiple IBM SVC clusters but can't find that on the cloud version. Can you please have ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Add IP port utilization to Storage Insights

Currently we can only monitor FC port utilization using SI so we're completely blind when it comes to ISCSI port utilization and need to contact our network team to monitor usage which delays incident resolution. It would be great to be able to mo...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

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...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

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...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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