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SI Should Include FC Ports Current Speed as a Column

SI should include the Current Speed for FC Ports in the table. The table currently only lists the maximum possible speed of a port. The CurrentSpeed of the port is available from lsioport -metrics
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

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

Add more options for scheduling performance monitoring

We collect more detailed performance reports on a daily basis using local scripts. When these are running, storage insights performance collection will fail. This is specific to collecting performance data on Hitachi Vantara storage arrays.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under 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...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Future consideration

Improve data collector health status indicators, and alert about data collector health issues.

In Storage Insights, problems exist where the workload balancing algorithm moves all workload to one data collector, because the other data collectors get into a state where they are “alive” enough to respond to the heartbeat, but not alive enough...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to Storage Insights so that you can see the performance of a volume compared to throttles that are set.

Understanding how a volume is performing compared to throttles set on it is very important. Currently, throttles are not represented in Storage Insights. I want to be able to see how much of a QoS a volume is using. I also want to be able to set a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add ability to specify SSH port and REST API port (if REST API used for UserID/Password connection

We have storage devices running that will not be upgraded to 8.6 for some time (or never), but are accessible only through NAT firewall gateways. The SSH daemon is accessible via ports that are not 22. Cisco and Brocades allow the REST API port nu...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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

Add option to send added 'semi-preformated' text with an emailed alert.

We want to send some alerts to our ticketing system. We've put in a separate idea for that integration. In the meantime, we'd like the ability to provide semi-preformated text to alerts. If we could do that, then we can send alerts to the ticketin...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

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