There's a problem with one of the critical applications in your storage environment. It's your job to investigate. In IBM Spectrum Control™ , you check the performance of the volumes in the application. All looks fine. You look at the pool that contains those volumes. The response time is higher than you expect. Now you want to know what was it like at the same time last week. IBM Spectrum Control makes it easy for you to compare performance metrics across different time ranges. Here's how: Open a performance view... [More]

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V5.2.13 of IBM Spectrum Control includes a number of exciting new features, including enhanced monitoring of EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, and EMC VNXe storage systems, the ability to measure whether a Spectrum Scale file system has enough room to recall data that was migrated to external storage, and  detailed information about the hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and flash modules in IBM Cloud Object Storage Slicestor nodes. Speaking of IBM Cloud Object Storage, you're also now able to clearly identify the vaults that cannot be accessed... [More]

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Yes, we can show the capacity and the cost of the storage that your applications, departments, physical servers, hypervisors, and hypervisor and server clusters use. But, sometimes you might want capacity to take center stage. (Sorry, Costs, you're going to have to sit this one out. At least, in this report.) So, you create a custom report, schedule it, and exclude the storage costs. When Jane and Joe get the report in their inbox, they get what they want - a daily summary report of the capacity that is used by the applications that they... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Control™ offers a single pane of glass to monitor the performance of all your IBM Spectrum Scale™ clusters. ‬ ‬In this video, you learn how to use IBM Spectrum Control to compare the performance of multiple IBM Spectrum Scale clusters and then analyze the clusters that have the heaviest I/O loads or the longest response times.‪‬ Learn how to use the following techniques to identify performance issues and bottlenecks in your storage:‬ Analyze the performance of all your clusters over a period to... [More]

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In this video, you can learn about the performance troubleshooting techniques that you can use in IBM Spectrum Control™ . Watch Bob, the storage administrator, as he investigates a problem raised with a critical medical database application within his organization. Watch Bob use the following techniques to investigate the problem in IBM Spectrum Control: Troubleshoot performance from the point of view of an application. Change which metrics are displayed in the performance charts. View the relationships between resources very easily.... [More]

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              As a storage administrator, you want to improve your business agility and at the same time reduce your storage costs and meet service levels. You have workloads that vary throughout the workday, by the day of the week, and you want to have more control over the performance optimization data you get back .                                     ( maxfavilli.com)     Previously performance data... [More]

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Here's the scenario: You bought an IBM® FlashSystem™ A9000. You added it to IBM Spectrum Control™ for monitoring. Now you want to see the beef: what sort of data reduction savings am I getting? FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000R can reduce the size of your data significantly using technologies such as compression and data deduplication. You want to see exactly what sort of savings you are getting, and how that compares to savings on other storage systems. To see the data reduction savings for your FlashSystem... [More]

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You add storage systems to get valuable insights, and to get those valuable insights, you rely on the data collector, which collects the asset, capacity, and performance data securely from your data center for analysis and presentation in IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ Storage Insights . But, what if your storage systems are in different networks or data centers and you have only one data collector? This might result in bandwidth or connectivity issues. Well, all you need to do is install multiple data collectors, and when you add a storage... [More]

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If you remember the tale, Goldilocks took only a few mouthfuls of Papa Bear's and Mama Bear's porridge, but she licked Baby Bear's bowl clean. If the Bear family were running a restaurant, how much would they charge Goldilocks? Would they charge her for the porridge that she ate or would they charge her for the three bowls of porridge? In IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ 5.2.12, when you create chargeback and consumer reports, you can charge for the block storage that is allocated to the storage consumer or the block storage that... [More]

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