IBM Storage Insights

IBM Storage Insights delivers a cloud-based predictive analytics platform to assess the health, capacity, and performance of your IBM storage infrastructure

Storage Insights, a new application in the Storage Insights family, is a no-cost support tool that delivers a common monitoring platform to all organizations that have IBM block storage devices. These block-based devices can include IBM FlashSystem, Storwize, and System Storage DS8000 models as well SAN Volume Controller and XIV Storage System, including current and legacy devices.

Now, you can monitor the health, performance, and capacity of these IBM devices from a single place in the IBM secure ISO 27K certified cloud. With the collection of over 100 metrics from IBM devices, you can see the performance of the storage resources for your critical applications and storage systems, which helps you to investigate, detect, and resolve performance issues. IBM Support can grab diagnostic log packages by themselves so the administrator no longer needs to find, collect, and transmit the logs during a support call.

IBM Storage Insights Pro, formerly known as Spectrum Control Storage Insights, provides capabilities to help optimize your infrastructure. Storage Insights Pro includes everything in Storage Insights. In addition, it permits to customize alert notifications to help you focus on storage infrastructures issues that require immediate attention. Advanced capabilities in Storage Insights Pro also include planning tools to help reclaim unused storage and to optimize data placement on the right storage tier with tier planning insights.

Key prerequisites
Use of Storage Insights and Storage Insights Pro requires an Internet connection and a workstation with a browser. In addition, both offerings require the installation of a data collector.

For specific browser requirements, see the Technical information.

For more information regarding the data collector, see Spectrum Control Storage Insights documentation in IBM Knowledge Center.

Planned availability date: June 11, 2018