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Search results: IBM Storage Insights

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Ability to monitor performance utilization. If a Datastore is performing too much IO, Add a mechanism to drill down to specific VM causing the performance impact within that datastore.

Once vCenter is registered using “Add vCenter” successfully, corresponding hosts and virtual machines are listed (and can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu option). If user choose a particular “Virtual Machine “ it gives details , esp...
7 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

add graphs to reports

when creating performance reports and chosing PDF or HTML as the preferred format, it would be very helpful to include a graph of the selected metrics as well. (much like in the upper half of the SI performance view.)
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Interactive performance charts

My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

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...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

The 'System Down' field is not specified when Storage Insights is used to open a support ticket

When using Storage Insights to create a ticket for a monitored storage system, there is nowhere to specify a value for 'System Down' field. Depending on the device type, the 'System Down' field may be a required field in the IBM Support Portal, in...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Units of Measurements in Storage Data to be displayed in Base 10

It would be greatly helpful for the Resource Unit Billing teams and IBM user group to see the option of selecting the Storage Metrics display using Base 10, in addition to Base 2 that currently exist.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

Display freeze time for remote copy remote copy relationships in Storage Insights

Customer has requested to be able to view Freeze Time for remote copy relationships within the Storage Insights GUI.Other remote copy information is viewed through navigating to: Resources - Block Storage Systems - Click the storage device - Click...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Selectable location for Cloud instance (compliancy with regulations - showstopper to use SI)

Banking customer requires their Storage Insights instance to be hosted in Europe. If not, they are not allowed to use Storage Insights. Customer would therefore also have to be able to select the location for their instance.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add a link to "view details" of a system directly from the dashboard (without having to choose a component).

The dashboards in Storage Insights are nice; however, it feels cumbersome to be looking at a storage system in the dashboard and then have to navigate to Resources --> Block Storage Systems to then select the same system to view the details. I ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1

Create alerting's for any of the CPU core

Alerting on one CPU core % utilization can be very useful to detect possible issues the system As SpecV device can have up to 32 CPU core this means that user need to select and configure one alert for each of the core. As the threshold will be th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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