IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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IBM Storage Insights

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    Rename the Custom tag 1 (2 and 3)

    Resources -> Block Storage Systems -> Select a Storage ->View Properties is showing the fields: Custom Tag 1 Custom Tag 2 Custom Tag 3 Resources -> Pools -> Select a Pool -> View Properties is also showing the fields named: Custo...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Reports need to include graphs

    We simply need the ability to include the displayed graph that is visible on dashboards or performance reports when we choose the "Create Report" option. All of the reporting options are currently text based and can include an over time reports bu...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    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...
    almost 2 years 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

    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.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Planned for future release

    SI to collect support data from SAN switches

    In a similar way that SpecV support data can be collected using SI SAN switch support data should be possible for Brocade (supportsave) and CISCO (show logging onboard, show tech-support details , show tech-support fcip) SAN switches
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Storage Insights Ability to Import a list of Departments and applications by CSV

    Our customer is requesting the ability to import Departments and applications via a CSV import mechanism
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Flash/SSDs Wear & Endurance GUI Monitoring

    Urgently requested for Spectrum Storage Insight and Spectrum Virtualize GUI feature enhancement, to include tracking and monitoring of the Flash/SSDs devices on their wear and endurance. Competitors already having such features on their GUI dashbo...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Allow Storage Insights to recieve and pass on notifications from other tools such as CSM

    The idea is to make SI the single pain of glass for the entire storage environment. An example would be for it to log notification from CSM when replicated volumes go out of sync. This would reduce the number of IBM tools the customer has to setup...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add Functionalities for Storage Scale

    Storage Scale functionality is needed in Storage Insights. This will give customers a Single Pane of Glass in administering and monitoring their Scale Clusters. Currently, The Storage Insights account needs root privileges in order to operate with...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

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