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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Replication capacity planning As a #storage administrator you are asked to provide a capacity report across your entire storage environment to your CTO, in order to help the company make financial decisions on what storage needs to be purchased in the coming year. A critical part of capacity reporting is understanding how much capacity is consumed by replication: Each copy requires capacity A volume may have multiple copies (for instance, hourly FlashCopy) with the last x copies kept, or a mix of local and remote copies HyperSwap relationships... [More]

IBM® Spectrum Control™ , V5.2.13 contains more than a few enhancements, but Dell EMC #storage (VNX, VNXe and VMAX) support that enables storage #analytics for Dell EMC customers is a big part of this new release.   The EMC support in both IBM Spectrum Control and the Storage Insights #cloud offering provides better insight, flexibility and efficiency for customers with heterogeneous storage environments.   If you are a storage administrator, you might have to analyze tiering of your storage capacity to see... [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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Television, movies, and comic books have featured the dynamic duo of Batman and Robin, who battle crime and keep the world safe. Batman is typically portrayed as tall and strong, while Robin is short and snappy. A perfect duo! They complement each other to get the job done. In the world of data protection, there is another dynamic duo: IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Spectrum Scale. To learn how these two products complement each other, read the recently updated white paper: Configuring IBM Spectrum Protect... [More]

              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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