Over time, many organizations tend to acquire collections of multi-vendor #storage systems, due to application requirements, multiple buyers, mergers, and even staff turnover. Add in the adoption of #cloud and #softwaredefinedstorage products, like IBM Spectrum Virtualize ™ , and that creates even more storage to manage. While each brand of storage has its own administration interface, it’s important to have a more comprehensive monitoring solution that provides a single point of control. That's where IBM Spectrum Control... [More]

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Complexity abounds in the world of #data protection, backup and recovery. Organizations struggle with complex procedures that take forever to setup and implement. System maintenance is always an ongoing challenge. The synchronized coordination between those that are responsible for storage allocation, the storage administrators and application owners and the backup and #VM administrators can be a responsibility nightmare. Administrators need to complete their tasks faster and efficiently whether their data is hosted in a physical, virtual,... [More]

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Managing #data growth is still – and will probably always be -- a major focus for organizations. Effective storage management is exceedingly important in the day-to- day operations and when different #ITinfrastructure issues come up during the course of the year.   Are you spending too much on storage, and getting too little in return?   Are you still using spreadsheets to track storage assets and utilization?   Are you wondering if you are making appropriate use of your storage?    Do you know how close you are... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Control™   now automatically generates agentless servers for the physical servers and virtual machines in your SAN environment, so that you can easily see how they are consuming storage. IBM Spectrum Control creates agentless servers by using information about the following resources: Host connections on storage systems Host bus adapters (HBAs) on fabrics Discovered virtual machines Read about the benefits of automatic creation of agentless servers in this blog: A great time-to-value feature: IBM Spectrum Control... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Control™ , a member of the IBM Spectrum Control Suite , offers a lot of value for customers who want to monitor IBM Spectrum Scale™ clusters. In addition to monitoring all your clusters, IBM Spectrum Control helps you to understand how the clusters are related to each other, to the block storage systems in your environment, and to the external cloud tiers.   In this video, you learn how to use IBM Spectrum Control to monitor the use of... [More]

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Watch this video to see how you can quickly set the location for your storage systems and then use the Cognos® Business Intelligence tool to create a report which shows the storage capacity by location. Let's cut to the chase As a storage administrator, you want to configure the properties of your storage resources so that you can filter or sort the resources in the GUI or in an external application if you export the data. Previously, you modified the properties of each resource individually. Now in IBM Spectrum Control™... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Control , a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , continues to add value to your #storage environment through the implementation of enhanced and new features that not only save you time and money but provide important #analytic #data for reports and problem determination.   In previous versions, you had to create agentless servers manually, either individually or in bulk (from a file), but now they are created automatically at the end of probe post-processing. This enhancement means less... [More]

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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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