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IBM Storage Insights

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SI no longer shows data collection logs

Recent versions of SI have removed the ability to view data collection logs.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

SI "Get support" doesn't display address of hardware requiring service

When opening a hardware ticket in SI, the address tied to the serial number is not displayed,
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

Global Mirror volume write throughput

Need an ability to see the Global Mirror Volumes listed on "Copy Data Screen" under General Tab. Also, need a total value of Global Mirror auxiliary volume write throughput as mentioned in the following webpage: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectru...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Storage Insights Pro Support for HDS Ops Center

Hitachi is advising customers to switch to Ops Center. SI Pro does not support Ops Center, only Command Suite. SI Pro must incorporate Ops Center in order to be compatible with Hitachi devices.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Need to add the total number of nodes and enclosures column to the array tabular view

Today its a common ask in a large environment how many total enclosures or nodes are in a cluster and the only option is to drill into each cluster. Under internal resources we actually have total nodes and enclosures displayed. But this can take ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Integrate Departments/Applications/Groups with ServiceNow - sync server associations for reporting

Integrate ServiceNow's CMDB (or Configuration items) with the servers in Spectrum Storage Insights and retrieve Business Line and Application associations
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Capacity/trending charting and/or min|max|avg for a given time series for a given Application Group

Ability to create utilization charts/trends that span over a selected time series for applications or groups. We have the ability to see snapshot data today, but no easy way to see the data over time. I would like to be able to see a similar graph...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

E-mail notification when ticket is successfully created, and log successfully uploaded

SI allow to create, update ticket and upload logsUser should receive an e-mail notification when one of these actions is successful or fail
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Alert when Storwize devices are seeing slow internode traffic

If the internode traffic is too high for an extended period of time, send out a warning. If it above a certain threshold, send out an error. I'm not sure what the warning/error thresholds should be ( I'll leave that to IBM ). In this situation rel...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Insights NAME field to reflect HMC NAME field or add it into Insights

It has come to our attention that the NAME field within Insights is actually a reference to the VOLSER from the HMC system. This i s normally not a problem, except on a multi-client box where we put the client name/code in the NAME Field. Without ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration