Your company has IBM block storage. As the storage administrator, it's your job to detect and resolve any problems with the storage environment. With IBM Storage Insights , detecting those problems is now easier than ever. Storage Insights provides storage management information in a single unified dashboard, where you can see the following: Diagnostic events that tell you whether your block storage systems are functioning correctly Key capacity data that tells you whether you have the capacity to meet your storage demands... [More]

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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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Wow! How great was 2017 for #IBM #dataprotection!   Award winning IBM Spectrum Protect was able to bring to market four function packed releases and IBM introduced a new member on the data protection team, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, which was named Hot Product at VMworld by Network World .   IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is a VM availability solution designed so that IT professionals can perform a backup without spending the time learning the ins and outs of a complicated backup tool. You can get detailed documentation for IBM Spectrum... [More]

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From time to time as refresher, it's always good to remember where the log files are located for IBM Spectrum Control™ in order to view detailed information about processing and to troubleshoot problems. IBM Spectrum Control generates a number of log files that record the processes and actions of its main components. You can view these log files to identify where problems occur, and you can provide them to IBM support so that they can help resolve any problems.     Log files contain trace information for component servers... [More]

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The latest update of IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights significantly enhances the support experience. Now, it's simple for you to get support for your IBM storage systems. With the latest update, IBM Support already has the data that they need to diagnose your problem at their fingertips - you install a lightweight data collector that constantly streams diagnostic data to IBM. Also, when you open a ticket, a log package is automatically sent to IBM Support. Want to know more? Read on ... In Storage Insights, you can now do the following... [More]

Like In this edition of my continuing blog series about IBM documentation, I'll delve into the IBM Knowledge Center for IBM Spectrum Control 5.2.15  to highlight information that might help you get the most out of the release and the product. S ome of the following topics are new for version 5.2.15, some you might not have seen before, and some I've highlighted before but are worth a second look as the end of the year fast approaches:   What's new for 5.2.15?... [More]

  The IBM Spectrum Protect™ Version 3.2 Blueprint books and scripts are now available to help you lay a strong foundation for your storage environment and build it right from the ground up. The Blueprint books provide detailed hardware and software requirements, based on trusted IBM technologies, for small, medium, and large configurations. Run the Blueprint scripts to streamline the installation and configuration process. After the storage environment is up and running, compare your... [More]

  We are going to give your IBM block storage a checkup! All you really need to monitor the health of your storage is a card that shows the life signs and vital statistics for each block storage system such as: Diagnostic events that tell you whether the storage system has got a clean bill of health Key capacity data that tells you whether you’ve got the capacity to meet your storage demands Key performance data that tells you whether your storage system passes its fitness test     So, we pinned the card for each block... [More]

Getting support, detecting potential and existing problems, and viewing basic information about your inventory of block storage systems has never been easier. In this update of IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights , you can monitor the basic health, capacity, and performance of IBM block storage systems from a single pane of glass . And if a problem is detected, you can get help to investigate and trouble shoot the problem, and minimize the impact of hardware and software issues before they affect the performance of your critical business... [More]

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 , 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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With IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1, you can now choose cloud object storage in the public cloud as the location to store and protect your data. IBM Spectrum Protect previously provided on-premises cloud object storage as a back-end storage option. But now with IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1, public cloud object storage has been added as an additional safe, secure location option, providing regional, tiered storage for your data. The cross-region level of protection is a great option if you need the additional security levels to ensure that your data is... [More]

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In the latest release of IBM Spectrum Control, V5.2.14, there is improved granularity in IBM SAN Volume Controllers (SVC) support, including both Stretched Clusters (SVC only) and HyperSwap (SVC, IBM Storwize and V9000).   The following scenario gives an insight on how the new functionality works.   Bob the System Administrator is auditing his storage requirements in preparation for next year’s budget. He wants to know what systems are configured as Stretched Clusters or HyperSwap and where they are physically located. He opens... [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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