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IBM Storage Insights

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Enhance the "Storage system performance monitor status" error message by adding potential causes and recommendations

Today, an error (critical) is raised for "Storage system performance monitor status" without explanations or details. It is difficult for the users to understand the cause, the impact and the possible resolution related to this error. Many other e...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Storage Insights Global Mirror Average RPO Metric Request

It would provide great value if Storage Insights could capture Consistency Group detail in the “Copy Data” section from the hardware and use that data to provide an Average RPO value by SYSPLEX or Consistency Group. Further, having the ability to ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

Alerts notifications by mail should include all details for the alert and not only the link to the Aler in the SI instance

SI alert notifications by mail should include the full description/details of the alert and not only the link to the alert in the SI instance. With this you will have at good overview of the "problem" with all details and no need to go to SI insta...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Request to support Spectrum Control on OLVM guest VM

As many customer looking forward from OLVM solution , Request to support Spectrum Control on OLVM guest VM was discussed. This includes support for setting up the Spectrum Control application and also the data migration from VMWare based VM to OLV...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Add performance statistics for IP Ports for iSCSI/Host workload

Storage Insights has good performance reporting capabilities for individual fibre channel ports, but there currently is no capability to look at the performance of IP ports that are performing host workloads (iSCSI/RDMA/NVMe). With the wide adapti...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

zHyperlink health status needs to be monitored and reported by Storage Insights

zHyperlink ports are not monitored or reported by Insights. The main advantage of Insights is the ability to see the status of all our boxes from one screen. Except that in this case, we still need to go back to all individual DS8K GUI's to double...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

Add observability and alerting for queue full conditions on IBM Flashsytem arrays

Problem statement. Pool response times reach up to 100ms but there is no insight as to the cause. IBM support were engaged and identified the cause to be queue full condition on the front-end per TS019735977.It is a frustration to know there is a ...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Easy way open IBM case for IBM Brocade SAN switch via Insight manager

Currently, we have different models of Brocade SAN switches and FCIP routers purchased from IBM. The challenge is that when we need to open a case for hardware or software issues, it must be done through the IBM PMR portal. If this process could b...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

The DS8 screens need to account for Journal Date when showing capacity

The current screens do not account for journal data when showing capacity numbers. This can lead to confusion. SI can show a DS8 is only 50% full but if it is doing replication with journal volumes it may spike up to higher at times. Meaning the c...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

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.)
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release