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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UPDATE: Go to the IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights page of the IBM Marketplace for the following offer:         Spring has sprung and summer has just begun to tempt us with its' hot days and somewhat cool nights. With the second half of the year upon us it might be time for you to plan your storage growth for your company moving forward, with an #IBMCloud-based offering that increases in value over time and offers unparalleled visibility to help you manage your storage infrastructure. That time to value... [More]

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In this continuing blog series, I'll delve into the IBM Knowledge Center for IBM Spectrum Control to highlight some pearls of information that might help you get the most out of the product. S ome of the following documentation topics are new for version 5.2.14, and some you might not have seen before:   What's new for 5.2.14 The intelligence behind how Spectrum Control schedules probes What resources can be monitored by Spectrum Control? The matrix knows. Getting help by exporting performance data Locations of log files A... [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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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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              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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V5.2.12 of IBM Spectrum Control is jam packed with new features, including new reports, enhanced hybrid cloud monitoring, and more device support. What do these features do? How can they help you monitor and manage your storage? There is a lot to take in with this release, and the IBM Knowledge Center is here to help. In the continuing blog series of "pearls in the Spectrum Control documentation", I'll highlight some of the new information that we've added for 5.2.12, and some existing topics that you might not be aware... [More]

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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In your chargeback and consumer reports, you want to make sure that you charge the same price for the same type of storage whether it is block storage, copy data, or file storage. And, if your block storage is tiered, you want to charge the same price for each tier to all of your storage consumers. And when the storage costs change, you don't want to have to update each report. In IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ 5.2.12, you can use the default costs for storage for each report that you create or you can use custom costs. When you change... [More]

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                    Yes!   Recently the automated probe option was added to IBM Spectrum Control to enable the creation of a probe and collect status and asset information more efficiently about your storage resources for monitoring.   This scheduling option puts you in more control of your resource monitoring by simplifying the process of managing your probes and helps to avoid excessive load on the IBM Spectrum Control server. To minimize the number of concurrent probe jobs, you can... [More]

The Petascale Data Protection white paper, published last month, has captured the attention of IT specialists across multiple industries. The paper describes an innovative solution for big data customers to help them scale the data protection of their storage environments up to hundreds of petabytes.　 Industry specialists from the medical, financial, automotive, and computing sectors have welcomed the solution, which uses an  IBM® Spectrum Scale™ file system that is integrated with... [More]

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