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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 ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under 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...
over 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...
over 2 years 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. ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

List each zone name, not just the zone sets

It would be very helpful to list each of the zone names, not just the number of zones in a zone set.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

IBM INsights : volume level capacity metrics for an array and a specific volume in the array

we is looking for volume level capacity metrics, especially, for an array and a specific volume in the array , how is the volume capacity changes over a week / month etc this is very important feature to be available in metrics during the performa...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

integration of IBM SevOne with Storage Insights

Integration of IBM SevOne with Storage Insights (This is specifically for IP network traffic monitoring). Since Industry move forward to TCP traffic this will important feature This helps for observability for TCP traffic kindly work with developm...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Enable Zooming on Performance Graph

In Storage Insights when looking at Performance or Capacity, give the ability to click-select an area of the graph to adjust the Start/End time of the displayed graph to the area you select.
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Improve the Performance Investigation Interface

When I'm doing a performance investigation using Storage Insights, I often want to compare performance from a similar time frame on a different day or week, Right now to do this I have to go into the time-frame box, and select a different start an...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release